I picked up Where the Mountain Meets the Moon at the library the other day, and took it to work today to read at lunch. By the end of lunch, I was 3/4 of the way through, and just finished it off, and am now in the bittersweet place, where I am content and happy that I've read this wonderful book, and sad that I've read this wonderful book and now it is over and I can't look forward to sitting down and reading it for the first time again.

Minli is a young girl in a poor village. Her father tells her stories constantly, and her mother bemoans their poor fortune. One day Minli, inspired by her father's tale of the Old Man of the Moon, decides to take matters into her own hands and travel to the Old Man of the Moon to ask how they can change their fortune. The story is a fairy-tale quest of the best sort - the quest itself is mythic, and every character in the book stops and tells another tale, each of which bends around and comes back later on.

It also contains wonderful illustrations by the author. Highly recommended.