500 Great Books By Women discussion

The Clay That Breathes: A Novella and Stories, Catherine Browder, 1991, Japan/United States (United States), NOVELLA/SHORT STORIES

"...Dara's Ma now lives in the United States, never telling her new, American husband the horror of what the Khmer Rouge did to Dara's father and Uncle Sothea. Barabara Spratt, with her "voice as plump as a feather pillow," tries to teach Hmong refugees "life skills," "until she thought she had more to learn than teach, and her heart grew heavy in her chest."..."

(E.B., p. 39)