She hides from Dahlia and texts her father asking him to come pick her up. Since Lola's death on May 15, after her long battle with cancer, Clara feels disconnected from Dahlia. Clara decides she doesn't want stay with Dahlia and she tells her she's leaving. Their families met through an adoption support group because Dahlia and Clara's sister Lola were adopted from China. Clara has known Dahlia since they were babies. Unfortunately, Lola developed acute lymphoblastic leukemia and despite chemotherapy, she relapsed and died.Ĭlara's narrative opens with her being dropped off at Bellman's department store on July 1 with her "used-to-be best friend", Dahlia. Lola who was abandoned in a cardboard box in Molihua Park in Shanghai, was found by a man and taken to an orphanage where her birthday was estimated to be October 1. The novel opens with a copy of Yuming's note hidden in a purse on May 16 while she is working in a factory in Hebei Province, in China.Ĭlara and her parents are still grieving after the death of Clara's older sister Lola who was adopted from an orphanage in China. Their lives intersect in a way neither can ever imagine, tied together by the thread of one action. Threads is a parallel narrative, telling the stories of twelve-year-old Clara Clay who lives in Evanston, Illinois with her parents and thirteen-year-old Yuming Niantu who is an orphan in China.
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