Every Child Deserves a Book

Every Child Deserves a Book by Hoa from Neptune (a Short Story Contest submission)

My love of reading began when I was four, listening to my father read aloud to my mother. Then the war came just as I started reading on my own. Books became so rare that I cried when one ended, unsure when I would find another. Decades later, working in a U.S. public library, each time I give a child a free book to join the book club, I envy them.