The Glow of the Seven-Leaf Clover

The Light of the Seven-Leaf Clover tells the legendary story of seven sisters from Qingshi Village who support one another through poverty and grow stronger in the face of adversity. At sixteen, Shen Nanxing studies beneath an old scholar tree on a stormy night. She wins an essay contest and uses the prize money to escape the fate of dropping out of school. The seven sisters pay for her education with their wages and handmade crafts, helping her make her way from the countryside to the international stage. Nanxing takes up her pen like a torch and establishes a foundation to give back to rural education, but she faces trial after trial, including a financial crisis and a crisis of trust. In the book, blue seven-leaf clovers in the Amazon rainforest intertwine with schoolhouses on the African savanna, pebble-written