Chapter 23 Summary

Winnie shows Pearl a scrapbook of pictures Jimmie took of her, even one of her in a nightgown, her hair mussed. He sang, "You Are My Sunshine," to her every morning. She tells Pearl that sex with her father was entirely different from sex with Wen Fu. It was joyful. She shows Pearl a picture taken three months after she and Danru moved in with Jimmie, how happy they all were. There is a picture of her smiling, but worried. The lawyer who had taken two gold ingots had advertised her divorce but Wen Fu had his office ransacked and the papers torn up.

Winnie decides Danru is not safe, so she sends him to stay with Auntie Du until the divorce is final. He dies in an epidemic along with Jiaguo. The next picture shows Winnie at 29, wearing the sweater Jimmie has...