Dear Mili

1957 · Book · Maurice Sendak

“There was once a widow who lived at the end of a village; all she had in the world was a little house and the garden that went with it.”

In order to save her daughter from a terrible war, the mother sends her into the forest telling her to return in three days. She meets St. Joseph who cares for her for three days, which in reality is thirty years. by Maurice Sendak