What a lovely story! Thanks to Rita for the recommendation. The Art of Hearing Heartbeats is a moving story about the power of love, and explores ideas about what love truly is, and how it is expressed. It starts in present day Burma, where New Yorker Julia Win has gone in search of her father, a very successful lawyer who left for work one day four years earlier and disappeared. An old letter found among his things, addressed to a woman named Mi Mi in a tiny village in Burma, send her in search of his past.
Once she arrives in the remote village of Kalaw she meets U Ba, who says he knows her father and will tell her his story, helping her to find him. U Ba proceeds to tell the story of Tin Win, whose mother abandoned him as a child because an astrologer told her he was cursed. Tin Win went blind, and was educated by the monks, and there he met Mi Mi, a young girl who cannot walk. Mi Mi and Tin Win become fast friends, and more, before Tin Win's uncle in Rangoon changes Tin Win's life forever.
This is just a beautifully written story, filled with mysticism and superstitions, but also emotional maturity and depth. It was just really heart-warming.
The Art of Hearing Heartbeats
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