![]() ![]() ![]() While Lexa decides what to do, she and her American half sister contend with their mother’s decision to leave their father for another woman, and a series of flashbacks unpack Lexa’s fraught relationship with Pin-Yen, who, during Lexa’s previous visits to Taiwan, schemed to ensure she wouldn’t return. ![]() Pong then leaves his estate to Lexa under the condition that she returns to Taiwan-and her estranged family-to claim it. Hsu-Ling tells Lexa that just before the accident, Jing Tao visited his best friend, Pong, on his death bed (Pong was dying from cancer), and that Pong made an apology and confession to Jing Tao involving his role in previous unfair treatment of Lexa by Hsu-Ling’s mother, Pin-Yen. Thirty-something New Yorker Lexa Thomas learns from her half sister, Hsu-Ling, that their father, Jing Tao, died in an accident. Butler’s riveting debut follows a half-white personal trainer who reconnects with her Taiwanese family after her biological father’s death. ![]()
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