![]() IN THE YEAR OF THE BOAR AND JACKIE ROBINSON concerns a young Chinese girl who arrives in the United States on a Sunday afternoon and begins attending Brooklyn's P.S. Even Water Jar was a head taller than she. ![]() Suddenly it ended with "Shirley Temple Wong." The class stood up and waved.Īmitabha! They were all so tall. While Shirley looked about, the principal had been making a speech. ![]() There were sweaters with animals on them, shirts with stripes and shirts with squares, dresses in colors as varied as Grand-grand Uncle's paints. No one wore a uniform of blue, like hers. Several others were as thin as chopsticks. Some faces were white, like clean plates others black like ebony. Row after row of students, each one unlike the next. ![]() The room was large, with windows up to the ceiling. ![]()
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