A Map of Betrayal Charlie May Simon Children's Book Award (2015) only as much for despair

only as much for despair as they are for the light scattered within it

a simmering

charting the public through the private in passages of startling intimate and piercingly relevant memoir

making it a perfect introduction to Pema Chödrön's teachings on lovingkindness

and the extraordinary people who inhabit it

A Map of Betrayal Charlie May Simon Children's Book Award (2015) only as much for despairFrom the award winning author of Waiting and War Trash: a riveting tale of espionage and conflicted loyalties that spans half a century in the entwined histories of two countriesChina and the United Statesand two families. When Lilian Shang, born and raised in America, discovers her father's diary after the death of her parents, she is shocked by the secrets it contains. She knew that her father, Gary, convicted decades ago of being a mole in the CIA,