Friday’s Page 69 ~ Soul Lanterns by Shaw Kuzki

Friday’s Page 69 ~ Soul Lanterns by Shaw Kuzki

Soul Lanterns Shaw Kuzki, Chidlren's Book, Japan, Hiroshima, Historical Fiction, Cover Love, Girl, Lantern, WWII
There are probably more mothers like Mrs. Koyama and me in this world than we can count, no distinguishing between enemies and allies; I’m sure that in America, in China, Korea, and Europe, there are mothers living their days the same way as me, breath by breath.
I’m just an uneducated woman, and I don’t know much, but even I know that somewhere in this world there is still fighting going on, and mothers are losing their precious children…
The reason I was looking up at the sky that night was because I was thinking that that same sky stretches over all those mothers.

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