As a freshman in college Monica Tsai is finally finding her place in the world. All she wants to do is code, make friends and figure out who she wants to be. When her grandmother begins to lose her memory Monica decides she must take a break from school and go back to Boston to help. Having been abandoned by her parents at an early age, Monica’s grandparents raised her and provided everything a girl could ever want; love, support and safety. Now it is her turn to take care of them. Monica is offered an opportunity to continue to work remotely with her professor on a project collecting peoples memories through journaling. Coincidentally, her grandmother, knowing her memory is slipping away, begins to journal and share with Monica their family’s secret history. Her grandmother, Yun, was raised in a pencil factory in China. These were not ordinary pencils. The women in the family had magical powers that allowed them to reforge or recover the memories and feelings of the person who wrote with them. While Yun and her cousin Meng filled their imaginations with fantasy and a bit of romantic poetry, the government was using their abilities for espionage and spying. Surviving multiple wars and years of separation from her family, Yun finally begins to share her past, hoping to save Monica’s future. The story felt a bit scattered. I loved the characters and writing but overall it lagged, repeated itself too many times and I am little surprised this was a Reese pick. ⭐⭐⭐
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