![]() ![]() ![]() The Girl experiences isolation and racist slurs at school. Ma would like to start a restaurant, but they don’t have the money for that. The members of the family face challenges as Vietnamese immigrants in America. ![]() She also longs for her brother’s companionship while her parents ignore her questions about what has happened to him. Meanwhile, the Girl experiences puberty and adolescent crushes. However, they also deeply love one another and are inseparable from each other. The Girl witnesses violent fights between her Ma and Ba that result in her father slamming his fists into walls and her mother smashing chinaware. Ma works as a seamstress and Ba as a welder, but they’d both rather be doing different things. They live as a family in a red apartment with a large swimming pool that delights Ma and fascinates the Girl, but the landlord fills it in after realizing the children of the mostly non-white, Vietnamese tenants are jumping into the pool from the balcony. But eventually, the Girl’s mother-known as Ma in Vietnamese-reunites with her family. ![]() During the confusion of their departure from Vietnam, the Girls’ mother was left behind on a beach in Vietnam. ![]()
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