Glass Tears

Tian and her family make a special glass bouquet to place on their father’s grave. Some years before, he had left Vietnam on a ship bound for a wider, browner land, but never came home. As Tian threads the tiny glass beads onto wire stems she remembers her father and sheds for him, a glass tear. Based on a true event from the 1940s, this gentle story by Jane Jolly has been illustrated by Di Wu.