Papa sat down at the table and poured his tea from the china tea set with pink flowers on the edges. I waited for him to ask Jaja and me to take a sip, as he always did. A love sip, he called it, because you shared the little things you loved with the people you love.
Purple Hibiscus: A Novel (ed. Algonquin Books, 2012) - ISBN: 9781616202422