Dreaming Water
Author: Gail Tsukiyama
Bestselling author Gail Tsukiyama is known for her poignant, subtle insights into the most complicated of relationships. Dreaming Water is an exploration of two of the richest and most layered human connections that exist: mother and daughter and lifelong friends.Hana is suffering from Werner’s syndrome, a disease that makes a person age at twice the rate of a healthy indi….Read More
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