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

Lydia is the oldest of Adeline's siblings. She was born with a deformed arm and forced into marriage at the age of seventeen by her father and stepmother. Lydia is a horribly, unhappy woman, who hates her husband. It is Lydia who turns Niang against Adeline so she is left out of their step-mother's will.