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. (Jan.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. Agent: Wendy Schmalz, Wendy Schmalz Agency. Iris’s father says that writing a poem means first identifying its “beating heart” foregrounding believable, dynamic characters and showing both the cost of inaction and fear around the HIV/AIDS crisis, and the power of activism to bring change and build community, Polonsky has done just that. Alongside emotional first-person prose peppered with mentions of era-specific entities and people-ACT UP, Indiana teen Ryan White-acrostic poems exchanged by Iris and her father address themes of life’s fragility as well as managing grief and rage. Surprising herself, though, she suddenly tells new kid Julian, who’s just moved from Indiana and doesn’t balk at the news, or at Iris’s family situation-she and her mother live in the same West Village building as her father and his boyfriend. People at Iris’s largely white, private New York City school know her father is gay, but Iris hasn’t told her friends, DnD players who head up an after-school Philanthropy Club, that he’s sick. Set in 1987, this short, emotionally charged novel by Polonsky ( Spin with Me) follows a few months in the life of seventh grader Iris Cohen, whose father is dying of AIDS.
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