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•Dragon tells his best friend her future.

•He said that she will experience the saddest and happiest moments at the same time.

•He also said the city will collapse when the lion’s eyes turn red.

•Someone tosses red paint on lion statue’s eyes to make fun of her.

•She escapes with her granddaughter.

•The city collapses.

• Embroiderer sees beautiful painting

• She embroiders the painting into felt for eight years

• When she finishes, the embroidery blows away

• She sends her son to fetch it in the Sea Palace

• The Sea Princess embroiders herself in the painting and he takes it

• When he returns the embroidery to his mother their cottage turns into the mansion

So far, in When the Sea Turned to Silver, Pinmei and Yishan are on their way to the City of Bright Moonlight to get the Luminous Stone. On their way there, they see a red butterfly, which is strange in the heavy snow, but think nothing of it. Then, a lady falls off of her snow white horse. They find out she is on her way to the City of Bright Moonlight, and they continue their journey together.

•Four pillars of the sky collapsed

•Goddess with fish tail heard the peoples cries

•Giant turtle killed 100 people per step

•Turtle’s legs became pillars of the sky

•Nuwa filled in the last gap

•Fuxi cried for his lost love

When the Sea Turned to Silver is a novel by Grace Lin that takes place in ancient China. The book is about a girl named Pinmei rescuing her grandma, who she calls Amah. Pinmei also has a friend named Yishan, who lives at the top of the mountain. You can see the sea from up by Yishan’s house. He lives on his own since his parents passed away. Amah is a well-known storyteller up in their mountain village, and they live near the Mountain Spirit. There are people coming up the mountain and taking young men to go build the Great Wall, and apparently she did not approve, so she was taken away. This book seems great so far, and I can’t wait to continue reading it!