The Most Beautiful Thing
Kao Kalia Yang
In this fictionalized picture-book memoir, a child narrator remembers her very old grandmother and the care she receives from her grandchildren. The narrator clips her grandmother’s fingernails and toenails while listening to stories from her childhood. Grandmother recalls being orphaned with her three younger siblings and often being hungry. Those early experiences explain why she never refuses food when it is offered to her in later life.
This book appears on 4 reading lists across 2 editions from 4 organizations.
