Jennifer L Holm

Turtle in Paradise Jennifer L Holm

The interaction between dream and reality is a life journey of re-understanding oneself. The eleven-year-old girl, Xiaogui, comes from a poor single-parent family. Unlike a romantic mother, real life makes her super-sophisticated. My mother called her Little Turtle because she had a hard shell and she never shed tears after she was five years old. For some reason, she had to leave her mother and seek refuge with relatives temporarily, and came to the remote Xiyu Island. The uncle of Xiyu Island told her: Although the turtle looks hard, it has a very soft belly.