The JINGU MAGICAL GARDEN

A delightful and immersive read for middle grade to adult.History and fantasy collide when a young Asian American girl confronts discrimination, displacement, and loss, but the discovery of a magic portal to another world sustains her throughout her darkest hours. More than a fantasy, The Jingu Magical Garden is the true story of an abandoned stone quarry in a sleepy Texas town, the story of an immigrant with a dream and the determination to transform an unsightly wound in the earth into one of the top tourist attractions in what is now the seventh largest city in the nation. But it is also a story about discrimination and displacement—about cultural and environmental borderlands and otherness—and, ultimately, the resilience of the human heart.