Homesick by Jean Fritz

Author:Jean Fritz
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

When my father came home in the evenings now, the first thing he did was to announce how long the siege had been going on. The twenty-third day, the twenty-fourth day. It was as if this was the only way he could keep track of time. Then he would tell us the news. Sometimes the Communists had allowed a few boat-loads of sick and wounded to cross the river to hospitals that the Y.M.C.A. had helped to set up. These refugees had terrible stories to tell: houses destroyed, people sleeping in the streets, children dying, water running low, disease spreading. I’ listened now because this was Lin Nai-Nai’s war and I wanted it to be over. Already I was helping Lin Nai-Nai fill baskets with food to take to Wuchang as soon as the city gates opened. She knew her family might refuse to see her, but she had to try, she said. I bought a big bar of milk chocolate for her little brother, but I didn’t always tell her the news that my father brought home.

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