Text and watercolor illustration. Project selected and made with funds of Edital de Bolsas de Incentivo à criação literária – Literatura Infantil e Juvenil do PROAC 2015, edited by BabaYaga collective, in 2016.
My grandmother was an Japanese immigrant in Brazil. We had the opportunity to live together when I was a child, enjoying the nature’s seasons movements. Persimmon was very common fruit in her childhood land and we had some trees of it in our ranch.
This is a story about preserving memories and flavors.
"Saudade" is a noun that exists only in Portuguese, my native language in Brazil, which we can barely translate to the feeling of "I miss you."
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