Description
Book SynopsisAroma''s Little Garden is a beautifully written novel that explores what it is like for a little girl to grow up in 20th century Shanghai, China.Aroma is an imaginative little girl who is in touch with nature. A dancing sunflower grows in the garden that she has planted and tended but nobody really believes that it can actually dance. Not her schoolmates and not the neighbors''. This causes her trouble at school and we watch as she grapples with these problems and attempts to retain her pride.
Auntie Mai wants her to be like other children and not a wild child and her father tries to guide her through the pitfalls of growing up. Along the way and as she dawdles to school there are encounters with people, situations and nature itself; the handsome beetle at the side of the road, the street seller of egg rolls who teaches her how to make them and the terrifying old neighbour, grandfather of Duidui, her best friend.
In Aroma''s Little Garden, Aroma is
