This is a story of growing up Chinese in California. Via the family members' stories and interactions, we see conflicting cultures, differeing views regarding how hard to cling to cultures, and several vignettes of different stances along the spectra.

I was liking this book, but it lost its freshness about halfway through, and got old. I found myself thinking "you already made this point about 100 pages ago, why are we going over it again?" Oh, well.