The Sacred Willow: Four Generations in the Life of a Vietnamese Family Love - Lead from the bench:

- Lead from the bench: Lead from wherever you are

Knots have a closed path with no beginning or end and may be symbolic of eternity or continuum

Daring Greatly is not about winning or losing

Beautifully woven from personal narrative

To do this dip them in water and shape them with your hands

The Sacred Willow: Four Generations in the Life of a Vietnamese Family Love - Lead from the bench:A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Duong Van Mai Elliott's The Sacred Willow illuminates recent Vietnamese history by weaving together the stories of the lives of four generations of her family. Beginning with her great grandfather, who rose from rural poverty to become an influential landowner, and continuing to the present, Mai Elliott traces her family's journey through an era of tumultuous change. She tells us of childhood hours in her