Descendant of the Crane by Joan He

Author:Joan He
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
Published: 2019-05-03T16:00:00+00:00

WHAT IS TRUTH? SEEK IT. WRITE IT. GOOD KINGS PAY TO HEAR IT. BUT IN TRYING TIMES, TRUTH IS THE FIRST THING WE .

—ONE OF THE ELEVEN ON TRUTH

She shut the cover. Traced over the three characters running vertically on the right-hand side. Two she could read. As for the one she couldn’t…the longer she stared at it, the more it looked like what it represented. Short, vertical strokes nestled within a box of closed strokes.

Quotes on a page.

Adages in a tome.

Tenets.

TENETS OF ELEVEN

Hesina kept her finger on the cover, convinced that in the next moment, the next breath, the characters would turn to insects again, and this whole revelation would be some hallucination born out of frustration. But it stayed solid under her fingertip, this book that’d shaped their laws, their customs, their minds and hearts and souls. The original Tenets. A relic, lost—until now.

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