Edward Tulane

Every so often someone gives you the perfect thing to read.  Martha Ringer lent me her copy of "The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane," by Kate DiCamillo.  

The synopsis on the back of the book reads, "Once, in a house on Egypt Street, there lived a china rabbit named Edward Tulane.  The rabbit was very pleased with himself and for good reason: he was owned by a girl named Abilene, who treated him with the utmost care and adored him completely.  And then, one day, he was lost."

A story of opening the heart and allowing it to break and open again.  On the inside cover is this:

The heart breaks and breaks

and lives by breaking.

It is necessary to go 

through dark and deeper dark

and not to turn

- from "The Testing Tree," by Stanley Kunitz 

It takes only about an hour to read.  I cried. It's perfect.