艾莎与母亲生活在一起，她的母亲是一位陶瓷艺术家，可以帮助她用一块粘土制作一个特殊的形状。这个形状让艾莎想起了父亲、海洋和柠檬。艾莎和她母亲一起出门办事，穿过街区时，这块粘土变硬了，艾莎拍了一下，它就碎了。肯尼莎•斯内德用感人而有力的文字和插图表现了艾莎如何学会接纳失去的感觉，以及体验用剩下的东西制造新东西的快乐力量。这本书赞美了多样性，并温柔地告诉我们，每个人都有能力治愈和创造。

In this modern-

day fable about grief, diversity, and family connections, a young girl discovers the joys--and pain--of the creative process.

Eisha lives with her mother, a ceramic artist, who helps her make a special shape out of a piece of clay. The shape reminds Eisha of her father, of the ocean, of a lemon. As Eisha goes through her neighborhood doing errands with her mother, the piece of clay hardens and then shatters into pieces when Eisha taps it. In poignant and powerful words and pictures, Kenesha Sneed shows how Eisha learns to live with the sense of loss and of the joyful power of making something new out of what is left behind. Illustrated with Sneed's bold colors, graphic lines, and gestural textures, the book celebrates diversity and shares a gentle message that we all have the ability to heal and create.