They arrange to meet in twenty minutes but in the meantime Clara hides from Dahlia in a booth that has leather purses on display. She hides from Dahlia and texts her father asking him to come pick her up. Since Lola's death on May 15, after her long battle with cancer, Clara feels disconnected from Dahlia. Clara decides she doesn't want stay with Dahlia and she tells her she's leaving. Their families met through an adoption support group because Dahlia and Clara's sister Lola were adopted from China.
Clara has known Dahlia since they were babies.
Unfortunately, Lola developed acute lymphoblastic leukemia and despite chemotherapy, she relapsed and died.Ĭlara's narrative opens with her being dropped off at Bellman's department store on July 1 with her "used-to-be best friend", Dahlia. Lola who was abandoned in a cardboard box in Molihua Park in Shanghai, was found by a man and taken to an orphanage where her birthday was estimated to be October 1. The novel opens with a copy of Yuming's note hidden in a purse on May 16 while she is working in a factory in Hebei Province, in China.Ĭlara and her parents are still grieving after the death of Clara's older sister Lola who was adopted from an orphanage in China. Their lives intersect in a way neither can ever imagine, tied together by the thread of one action. Meehan said some books on the list were deemed “too mature” for elementary school students, but “it’s not that individual specific titles are being challenged or there are specific objections.”Ī local TV news report on WJXT quoted Duval County Public Schools officials as disputing PEN’s characterization of the situation, saying that the books in question were neither banned nor challenged, but that they were under review.īut Meehan, citing information PEN America gathered from a public records request, said the district purchased the Essential Voices collection in 2021, then ordered the titles removed from shelves in January, with no information forthcoming since then about what the review process entails or why these books were targeted.Threads is a parallel narrative, telling the stories of twelve-year-old Clara Clay who lives in Evanston, Illinois with her parents and thirteen-year-old Yuming Niantu who is an orphan in China. Such actions by adults who should be celebrating and nurturing all children is so damaging and so unfair to children.” “It’s a slap in the face to people whose identities mirror those of the characters in those books, specifically children of color and LGBTQ children. “It’s frustrating and, frankly, dangerous, to secretly, quietly neglect to put certain books on shelves,” Polonsky wrote in a text message to the Forward.
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