The central character in this story is Jing Mei. Day after day, she struggles with this because she is dealing with feelings of resentment towards her mother, because her mother never told her that she had two older half sisters. Later in the story she finds our about a whole life her mother had in China that Jing Mei never knew about. This bothers her because now, being in China, she gets a feeling of family, that as an American she has never known. This and the fact that she was never told about her sisters by her mother, who is now deceased, makes Jing Mei feel as if she had never really known her mother. Jing Mei feels distance from her family because they were all raised in the traditional Chinese ways while she was raised in a much more American environment. She feels that in order to make things right between her and her mot

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