All SFPL locations will close early at 12 PM on Friday 3/29 for Good Friday. All SFPL locations will be open for regular hours on Saturday 3/30 (10 AM - 6 PM).
Twelve-year-old Sophie Caco is removed from her impoverished village and sent to live in New York with her mother, a woman she barely knows. There she learns about a terrible truth that shadows her family.
When Saya's mother is sent to jail as an illegal immigrant, she sends her daughter a cassette tape with a song and a bedtime story, which inspires Saya to write a story of her own -- one that just might bring her mother home.