On a snowy, cold morning, loss arrives, and bare gingko trees “ for the sky with their thin fingers” against the new emptiness of the house across the street. Twin brothers are born amid the summer bounty in the garden. In gentle prose, Yang’s picture-book debut explores nature, community, and connection. And changing seasons usher in life and death. Paj Ntaub helps “Tais Tais hang the special story cloth about how the Hmong got to America.” She exchanges waves with her neighbors Bob and Ruth, an elderly white couple even older than Tais Tais. When Paj Ntaub moves into a new green house with big windows with her family, the garden grows with “tomatoes, green beans, and a watermelon as round as my mother’s belly.” Soon, the green house becomes their house. A young Hmong American girl shares the small things of wonder that make up her world.
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