A breathtaking immigration tale with appeal across generations.
When a little girl visits her great-grandfather at his curio-filled
home, she chooses an unusual object to learn about: an old cigar
box. What she finds inside surprises her: a collection of
matchboxes making up her great-grandfather’s diary, containing
objects she can hold in her hand, each one evoking a memory.
Together they tell of his journey from Italy to a new country,
before he could read and write – the olive stone his mother gave
him to suck on when there wasn’t enough food; a hairpin he found
on the boat; a ticket still retaining the thrill of his first
baseball game. With a narrative entirely in dialogue, Paul
Fleischman makes immediate the two characters’ foray into the
past. With warmth and an uncanny eye for detail, Bagram Ibatoulline
gives expressive life to their journey through time – and towards
each other.
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