Sunday, May 11, 2008

• everyone needs to go out and buy this book. beautifully written. little stories on ways people show love in little ways. i just grabbed it at a local bookstore and could not put it down.

  here is some of page 1:

  Little Birds

  This morning I woke up and was fifteen years old. Each year is like putting a new coat over all the old ones. Sometimes I reach into the pockets of my childhood and pull things out.

  When Michel gets home from his shop he said we were going out to celebrate--maybe a movie or the McDonald's on boulevard Voltaire. Michel is not my real father. He grew up in Paris and did a spell in prison. I think he was used to being alone, but we've lived together so long now, I'm not sure he could survive without me.

  We live in Paris, and I think I was born there, but I may never know for sure. Everyone thinks I'm Chinese, and I look Chinese, but Michel says I'm more French than bread.

  It is the afternoon of my birthday, but still the morning of my life.

   

   

   

  Currently Reading The Secret Lives of People in Love By Simon Van Booy see related

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