The Red Thread: An Adoption Fairy Tale by Grace Lin [in Bloomsbury Review]
Here’s a delightful new spin on how adoptive parents and children are bound together. Using the age-old Chinese belief that a red thread binds people together in love, Lin has created a touching fable about a king and queen who, in spite of their near-perfect life, find themselves in great pain. A wise old peddler offers special glasses that reveal a red thread attached to their hearts. The couple must journey to the thread’s end to find their heart’s desire, a precious daughter to call their own.
Review: “TBR’s Editors’ Favorites of 2007,” The Bloomsbury Review, November/December 2007
Readers: Children
Published: 2007
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