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PreS-Gr 2—Like Thao Lam's The Paper Boat, Lee's story begins with a childhood experience set against a threatening landscape from which her family fled: "Like feathery seeds, we take flight, finding a new home even in the tiniest of spaces." The scene right before a cozy, comforting city nightscape of lighted windows in apartment buidings is comprised of refugees and barbed wire, camouflage and barracks. A familiar story of an asylum-seeking family unfolds in idyllic scenes of a child's play with a dandelion. The child and ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More