Who is Lydia from Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter and what is their importance? Falling_Leaves_(memoir) English & Literature Lydia | Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter

Adeline's oldest sister and the oldest of the children, Lydia has a deformed arm from birth and is forced into a marriage at seventeen by her father and stepmother. She is horribly unhappy and hates her husband, who passively withstands her abuse. Lydia turns her stepmother against Adeline so that Adeline is left out of the will upon her stepmother's death.