The Possibility of Tenderness by Jason Allen-Paisant Format:Paperback Travel–scale China’s sacred Mount Hua

Travel–scale China’s sacred Mount Hua to reach a tea house

a poignant story of adventure

Vivacious debutante Osla is the girl who has everything—beauty

A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year

but perhaps the greatest game of all has begun

The Possibility of Tenderness by Jason Allen-Paisant Format:Paperback Travel–scale China’s sacred Mount HuaJason Allen Paisant grew up in the May Day Mountains of Jamaica. The cycles of his boyhood revolved around tending the plots of cabbage, tomatoes, and yams dotting the clay hillsides; playing beneath the cavernous roots of cotton trees; and climbing trunks of the fruit trees that fed him and his grandmother. But as a student of the literature of colonial England, in which the landscape of heather and moors has long been thought of as ideal, these