Silk Umbrellas Author:Carolyn Marsden Noi is learning to paint like her grandmother. She and her older sister, Ting, spend hours in the jungle, entranced as they watch Kun Ya paint delicate silk umbrellas to sell at the market. But when Ting must begin work at a local radio factory to help support the family, Noi see her own fate reflected in her sister's changing wo... more »rld. Can she master her fear of failure--and stand up for her gift--before the future masters her?
Woven with the customs and language of Thailand, this evocative novel trascends time and place to tell the graceful story of an artist's coming of age.« less