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Sun-Drenched in a Winter Storm by Pen.
The Joy Luck Club, June, G.
100 words for the Chinese diaspora (and the family we end up with)
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She starts to pack the day before: she's been to China twice now, and she knows what to expect, but her aunties flutter around her. Will you be warm enough? asks Ying-Ying. Don't forget the red packet, reminds An-Mei. Lindo checks for June's passport. This picture not so good, she says. Can you get another?
These aunts are not her aunts, she knows, and their daughters are not her cousins, but as they fuss about her, smoothing down her hair and checking that she has packed enough sweaters, she knows that they are her family, and that they are enough.
The Joy Luck Club, June, G.
100 words for the Chinese diaspora (and the family we end up with)
**
She starts to pack the day before: she's been to China twice now, and she knows what to expect, but her aunties flutter around her. Will you be warm enough? asks Ying-Ying. Don't forget the red packet, reminds An-Mei. Lindo checks for June's passport. This picture not so good, she says. Can you get another?
These aunts are not her aunts, she knows, and their daughters are not her cousins, but as they fuss about her, smoothing down her hair and checking that she has packed enough sweaters, she knows that they are her family, and that they are enough.
