![]() ![]() Out of Paige's struggle to find wholeness, Jodi Picoult crafts an absorbing novel peopled by richly drawn characters, and explores motherhood with a power and depth only she is capable of. Harvesting the Heart is written with astonishing clarity and evocative detail, convincing in its depiction of emotional pain, love, and vulnerability, and recalls the writing of Alice Hoffman and Kristin Hannah. But her mother's absence and shameful memories of her past force her to doubt whether she could ever be capable of bringing joy and meaning into the life of her child, gifts her own mother never gave. ![]() Now, having left her father behind in Chicago for dreams of art school and marriage to an ambitious young doctor, she finds herself with a child of her own. Paige has only a few vivid memories of her mother, who abandoned her at five years old. ![]() Summary: From the author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Small Great Things and My Sister's Keeper , a novel exploring the story of a young woman overcome by the demands of having a family. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Ultimately from this, Chloe gains awareness of her unkindness to Maya. Then one day in class when Maya is absent from school Chloe learns how kindness, even the smallest acts, spreads out and makes the world a little better. Throughout the story, Chloe and her friends talk and laugh about Maya’s clothes and lunches. As the school year continues, Chloe and her two best friends stick together and never include Maya no matter how many times she asks to play with them. ![]() And every day after that, Chloe looks away and never smiles back. Instead of smiling back, Chloe moves a little further away and turns to the window to stare at the snow. She sits in the seat right next to Chloe and smiles at her. ![]() Maya is shy with old, ragged clothes and spring shoes that have a broken strap. Lewis is a picture book that reminds children and adults about the importance of treating others with kindness and second chances within our world.Įach Kindness begins in the middle of winter when the main character, Chloe, has a new student, Maya, in her class. Each Kindness by Jacqueline Woodson and illustrated by E.B. In our world today, there has been a growing movement to encourage all ages to choose kindness. ![]() ![]() Reading Conor Dougherty's informative, evenly paced, but often too locally focused Golden Gate, I waited for solutions. To move forward, movements will have to find ways to break out of their particular communities and build strength across class lines. And yet, over and over, in city after city, it’s always where people end up and what seems most likely to work.' He has a point. ![]() 'Mixed solutions can feel like a cop-out,' Dougherty writes, 'especially in polarized times. Yet a crucial question in Golden Gates remains unanswered: What can governments do to help those who need housing now without enacting policies that could make the situation worse in the long term, whether by exacerbating displacement and segregation or by contributing to an even more severe shortage down the road?. Digging through the archives, Dougherty shows just how long California leaders have been aware of the housing crisis that the state faced if it didn’t alter course. ![]() Golden Gates, a new book on the housing crisis by New York Times reporter Conor Dougherty, dives straight into these problems, skillfully exploring everything from the yes in my backyard (YIMBY) movement, which promotes more housing development, to anti-gentrification activism, the normalization of homelessness, and the factors that have made it so prohibitively expensive to build anything new. ![]() |