The Story
The author relates her grandmother’s story, who as a young girl witnessed the abdication of Vietnam’s last emperor. Slipping inside the palace gardens, she takes a sacred lotus seed which then travels with her as she becomes an immigrant in a new and foreign place. The lotus seed becomes a symbol of her home, and of the ability to find beauty and belonging in a place far from one’s country.
Description
The author relates her grandmother’s story, who as a young girl witnessed the abdication of Vietnam’s last emperor. Slipping inside the palace gardens, she takes a sacred lotus seed which then travels with her as she becomes an immigrant in a new and foreign place. The lotus seed becomes a symbol of her home, and of the ability to find beauty and belonging in a place far from one’s country.
