About the Book: The Art of Hearing Heartbeats
When Julia Wins father disappears one morning without a trace, on the day after
her graduation from law school, her family is left unsettled and confused. Its
not until a few years later that her mother finds a piece of the puzzle-an
unmailed love letter to a Burmese woman named Mi Mi.
Intent on solving the mystery and coming to terms with her fathers past, Julia
puts her career and her life on hold to travel to the village where Mi Mi once
lived. Her journey takes her to the small mountain village of Kalaw, where