“Will my learning help him?” I ask, needing to confirm that I’m making the right choice. “Education is almost always good, especially when it brings us to an understanding of our place in the world.” “And literature will do that?” “Sang Ly, we are literature—our lives, our hopes, our desires, our despairs, our passions, our strengths, our weaknesses. Stories express our longing not only to make a difference today but to see what is possible for tomorrow. Literature has been called a handbook for the art of being human. So, yes. It will do that.”
