Fluffy, steel-gray clouds passed before me. I looked out at the sky, and I thought of the rainbow I had seen in the garden of the seminary. I imagined sitting by the gurgling fountain with that rainbow dancing before me. I imagined Junho’s tranquil and gentle smile. The bright sun appeared through the traveling clouds and sparkled against my window. I leaned back and closed my eyes.
About the Author
Born in Pyongyang, North Korea, Sook Nyul Choi spent two and a half years as a refugee in Pusan during the Korean War. She later immigrated to the United States to pursue her college education at Manhattanville College. She taught school in New York City for twenty years while she and her husband raised two daughters. She now resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is a full-time writer.
Echoes of the White Giraffe is a sequel to Sook Nyul Choi’s first novel, Year of Impossible Goodbyes, which won the Judy Lopez Children’s Book Award. She is currently at work on her first children’s picture book.
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