About the book
Allison King's debut novel follows Monica Tsai, a reclusive college freshman who journals and writes code for a program designed to connect strangers online and worries constantly about her grandparents, now in their nineties. Her grandmother Yun, whose memory is fading, lived through two wars in China and then moved to the United States. Monica resolves to find the cousin Yun was separated from long ago, and the program she is helping build puts her in touch with a young woman who gives her a pencil that contains a clue. Alongside run Yun's written memories of working at Shanghai's Phoenix Pencil Company in wartime, as she and her cousin Meng learn their family's women can Reforge a pencil's words.
Reese Witherspoon selected it for Reese's Book Club in June 2025.
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