Growing up in a Chinese family, you never hear enough stories about how it was back then—at least not according to my parents. They love to talk about the old days and that’s how it was all the time.

It was already evening by the time I arrived. People were streaming down the hill. Could the temple already be closed? This was my last chance, I knew, though also my second chance.

Kazuo Ishiguro is perhaps most widely known for his novel, The Remains of the Day. Like this earlier work, Never Let Me Go is narrated from a first-person perspective by a narrator who is looking into her past and trying to make sense of her life, especially her childhood.

Humanity does not understand what God wants and, according to Neale Donald Walsch, author of the phenomenal bestselling series, Conversations with God, this is the cause of the suffering and violence in our world today.