Summary

In "A Glass Heart," in 1979, Dawn traveled to San Francisco with a group of "delegates from Beijing" (111). They were "representatives of the Chinese nation and its arts" (111). During the trip, Dawn wondered what she might be able to become (113).

At the end of the visit, Dawn did not board the flight home. Instead, she visited "a cellist named Edmund Hsu" (113). He invited her in, and they talked. He was second-generation, and understood some of what his parents experienced during the Cultural Revolution. Dawn said she could not return to China, because she wanted a different life. Edmund agreed to let her stay with him. They grew close. One night, they started sleeping together.

In "Patient Seventeen," when Junie was three and a half, the doctor suggested that Momo and Cassia "petition to have a second...