{"id":144516,"date":"2025-08-14T07:39:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T07:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/144516\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T07:39:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T07:39:11","slug":"new-york-times-bestselling-authors-new-novel-recalls-origami-cranes-she-received-as-a-kid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/144516\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times bestselling author\u2019s new novel recalls origami cranes she received as a kid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Evelyn Skye\u2019s grandparents used to visit their family in California every year from Taiwan, bringing a box full of origami cranes as gifts for the children.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThe paper my grandmother used was gorgeously patterned, with silver or gold woven in,\u201d recalls the writer. \u201cIt was so special because she made them with love for us. I had chains of them strung corner to corner across my bedroom ceiling. I still think back to the journey these cranes took across the ocean.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">That memory is at the heart of Skye\u2019s new novel and 10th book, The Incredible Kindness of Paper.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In it, the protagonist, Chloe Hanako Quinn, a New York high school guidance counsellor beset by all sorts of challenges, begins leaving little origami roses all over town, each carrying an uplifting message and quietly changing lives. One of them finds its way to a young man from Chloe\u2019s past.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Origami cranes are a classic origami model. Photo: Shutterstock\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/e4c74b07-1c0e-4215-afd6-e3e006360c80_1126e908.jpg\" title=\"Origami cranes are a classic origami model. Photo: Shutterstock\"\/>Origami cranes are a classic origami model. Photo: Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Skye, a New York Times bestselling novelist whose parents immigrated to the US from Taiwan, has written novels spanning children\u2019s, young adult and adult categories. 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