Summary

After the damage to his store, Lin worries about how he will support himself. He has an identity crisis and begins to resent his Chinese heritage and the different culture he was raised within.

Covey’s mother worked with a baker named Pearl to make black cakes for weddings before she left the family. Covey’s father tells her that an older man named Clarence Henry, Little Man, is coming to their house to meet her. She does not want him to court her. Little Man is a known gangster and has a poor reputation. Lin owes him money and Little Man asks for Covey’s hand in marriage. Gibbs panics and begs Covey to come to England with him. She tells him she will meet him there. Pearl is devastated by the news as well, but agrees to make the cake for...