Table of Contents
Sorrow 1
Chapter 1 What We Can Survive 2
Chapter 2 Beloved 4
Chapter 3 The Inescapable Truth 10
Chapter 4 Katie 13
Chapter 5 The Little Boys of Christmas 19
Chapter 6 A Barren Land 22
Chapter 7 Flashes of Light in a Dark Sky 28
Chapter 8 Under the Bridges of Venice 32
Chapter 9 Come Find Me in the Cosmos 36
Chapter 10 Embers 40
Chapter 11 The Way Forward 42
Chapter 12 Abiding Time 45
Chapter 13 What One Day Brings 48
Chapter 14 He Comes from My Heart 51
Chapter 15 Let There Be No More Talk of Loss 53
Hope 56
Chapter 16 Even the Fiercest Fall 57
Chapter 17 Acceptance Will Find You 62
Chapter 18 Count on Love 65
Chapter 19 Up, Up and Away 68
Chapter 20 Clinging to Hope 75
Chapter 21 For You We Crossed the World 78
Chapter 22 The Judge 83
Chapter 23 Homesick for the You I Dreamed Of 87
Faith 91
Chapter 24 Blessed With Luck 92
Chapter 25 Under the Sitting Tree 95
Chapter 26 A Thousand Words 99
Chapter 27 The Company of Strange Creatures 102
Chapter 28 Dusk 105
Chapter 29 From the Hands of the Dalai Lama 108
Chapter 30 Trusting the Path 111
Family 114
Chapter 31 I Want It in My Bones 115
Chapter 32 The Horrifying Story of Comfort Women 119
Chapter 33 In Like a Lion Came Motherhood 124
Chapter 34 The Strike 129
Chapter 35 Divine Destiny 133
Chapter 36 He Can't Leave, So I Can't Leave 139
Chapter 37 The Boy and the Rivière Noir 144
Chapter 38 Silver Linings 149
Chapter 39 Far from Home 153
Chapter 40 Forgiveness 159
Chapter 41 Endings 162
Chapter 42 Behind the Doors of the Third Floor 164
Chapter 43 Back Around the World 169
Chapter 44 The Offering 172
Epilogue 174
