is a vibrantly illustrated storybook about loss, written for readers of age 8 to adult. It does not hide from sorrow, but, in simple and poetic language, gently guides the reader on a journey through the beauty of one springtime’s end—and toward the knowledge of how life’s most difficult feeling will end. It’s late springtime in Brooklyn, and a million petals fall from the flowering trees that line the borough’s streets. Wandering alone in the silence created by this blanket of flowerdrops, our storyteller remembers a girl named Harriet who has recently come and gone from his life. '