This book is great. Told in multiple points of view in a Chinese-American family: second generation Lily, her son Nick who looks nothing like his mother, and her immigrant mother, Mei. The first two portions of the book, with Lily as the narrator, and then Nick, were very different stories of identity and coming of age. Mei's story was by far the most interesting, told at the end of her life, spanning her entire life. There are a lot of themes and ideas in this book, and I would have happily read another hundred or more pages.