Summary

In Chapter 54, they go to a church where Leigh’s mom learned to play the piano from a Catholic nun. Leigh asks to go inside and they find a digital piano. Feng says the one Leigh’s mother used to play must be gone and Leigh is disappointed. Outside, Leigh thinks she hears someone playing but does not see anyone. A young man approaches Leigh and asks if she is American. He then yells at them, and Feng translates it as birds belong in the sky. The man vanishes after.

They go to the Shilin Night Market in Chapter 55 and Leigh sees all kinds of food. Waipo says it was her mother’s favorite market. Someone calls her a foreigner and she tries to ignore it. Then, another man shouts that a red bird came out of the sky. When Feng says a...