Loop of Jade by Sarah Howe memoir Prize-winning poet Ruth Padel’s heartfelt

Prize-winning poet Ruth Padel’s heartfelt new collection is a grief observed: an elegy for her mother on her death at the age of ninety-seven

in northern India

/ fastening

from 1914 until 1948

Loop of Jade by Sarah Howe memoir Prize-winning poet Ruth Padel’s heartfeltThere is a Chinese proverb that says: It is more profitable to raise geese than daughters. But geese, like daughters, know the obligation to return home. In her exquisite first collection, Sarah Howe explores a dual heritage, journeying back to Hong Kong in search of her roots. With extraordinary range and power, the poems build into a meditation on hybridity, intermarriage and love what meaning we find in the world, in art, and in each other.