Is an exultant novel about China and America, love and loyalty, the identities we invent and the true selves we discover along the way. Olivia laguni is half-Chinese, but typically American in her uneasiness with her pat...Is an exultant novel about China and America, love and loyalty, the identities we invent and the true selves we discover along the way. Olivia laguni is half-Chinese, but typically American in her uneasiness with her patchwork family. And no one In Olivia's family is more embarrassing to her than her half-sister, kwan li.