{"id":5207,"date":"2020-10-15T06:34:51","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T12:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=5207"},"modified":"2020-10-15T06:34:51","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T12:34:51","slug":"sugar-in-milk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=5207","title":{"rendered":"Sugar in Milk<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“But my friends and my family were all back home.”<\/em>
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\nI’ve a review over at BookPage<\/em> of Thrity Umrigar’s<\/a><\/strong> Sugar in Milk<\/em> (Running Press Kids, October 2020), illustrated by Khoa Le<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

That review is here<\/a><\/strong>, and below at 7-Imp today are some spreads from the book. <\/p>\n


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“After Auntie and Uncle left for work, I sat alone in my room, thinking of my old friends and longing to make new ones.”<\/em>
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“‘Come, my people,’ said their leader. ‘Now that we have to leave the home we love so much, we must find a new land that we can call our own.'”<\/em>
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“The king sighed impatiently. He snapped his fingers and ordered his servant to bring him an empty glass.”<\/em>
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“I looked around me, stopped. And then I took another step\u2014into the dazzling light
of America. Nothing had changed. And yet, everything had.”<\/em>
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SUGAR IN MILK. Copyright \u00a9 2020 by Thrity Umrigar. Interior and cover illustrations copyright \u00a9 2020 by Khoa Le. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Running Press Kids.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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