![]() ![]() Then Noi's mother signs up Noi's 15-year-old sister, Ting, to work in a factory making radios-a tedious, joyless task. The family barely gets by with his part-time income, that from the silk umbrellas, and the mosquito nets Noi's mother stitches. Become the butterfly." Since the land Noi's father once farmed was sold to a developer, he now, ironically, lays bricks for the houses that will fill his former farmland. ![]() Noi, accustomed to contributing only minor details to the artwork, trembles when her grandmother instructs her to paint a butterfly on the silk, advising, "Paint with all of you. ) graceful, compact novel centers on an 11-year-old who delights in helping her grandmother paint jungle-inspired designs on silk umbrellas to sell at market. ![]() Set in northern Thailand, Marsden's ( The Gold-Threaded Dress ![]()
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