“What is the best thing about where you live? Share something unusual about it.”
I smiled as I wrote “Peaches.”
The peaches grown in Bucheon are the best in all of South Korea, and a rare treat for a young Yangsook. She dreams of a peach orchard where she can play and eat as much of the delicious fruit as she wishes. Then one day, after hours of a sudden heavy downpour, the sky begins to rain peaches. Yangsook finds herself in peach heaven—until she remembers the farmers who have lost their harvest and decides she must help them.
Fully revised and re-illustrated,
Peach Heaven
is a timeless ode to human kindness and childhood wonder based on the author’s early life.