Book title: Memoirs of a Geisha
Author: Arthur Golden
Film director: Rob Marshall
Crosspatch Artist: Bibamus
Bookdrop location: TBD
Bookdrop date: TBD
Note: Suppose that you and I were sitting in a room overlooking a garden, chatting and sipping at our cups of green tea while we talked about something that had happened a long while ago, and I said to you, “That afternoon when I met so-and-so… was the very best afternoon of my life, and also the very worst afternoon." You might set down your tea and insist that such a thing is not possible without plaigarizing Dickens. But that afternoon, my brother gave me a toy boat he made from a newspaper. Its journey down the gutter swollen with rain was the most exciting thing I had yet seen in my short life. But then the clown appeared in the storm drain and offered me a balloon.

Trust me, your mother was right when she told you never accept a balloon from a storm-drain clown.