The Story of Roots

"I love this story because it's about so many things that I have an interest in and an affinity for," she says. Her first few years living in San Francisco my mother's sickness and funeral. Many smelled like the ocean, like gung-gung's sea water breath,. Like the smells that made up her heartbreak. The ones of me smelled like vanilla yogurt and strawberries. If my mother and Popo had been there, I would have told them this."