The Firefly Post Office

About this book

Ten-year-old Suri keeps her grandmother's last letter folded under her pillow. It stops in the middle of a sentence. One rainy night a single firefly taps her window and leads her to the great banyan tree at the river's bend, where she finds a secret post office run by fireflies. There is only one rule she must never break: you may write anything at all, but you may never ask the far-away back. When the great rains come early and the ancient tree begins to fall, Suri must remind a whole village of something it has spent years forgetting, that it was heard. A warm, luminous story about memory, community and letting go.