The Emissary

Broke my heart and stitched it back up, as if to remind me hearts are to be broken and to heal.

I felt the love for his great-grandchild, and Mumei's abject joie de vivre and youthful sensibility. I loved the talk of linguistics, culture, and geography. The substantial topics of isolation, as a nation and an individual, foreign-ness, change, enduring, vulnerable populations, the stuff of life had me captivated.