She wanted to bring together a small group of women to celebrate, eat, and play mahjong. She thinks her daughter jing mei can become a child prodigy. In china she gave birth to twin girls, she hears of the Japanese that will most likely kill her and her kids, she flees with a few possessions, her kids, and a wheelbarrow. She soon becomes tired and the wheelbarrow breaks. So she is forced to leave her kids, stuff their shirts with a photo,money,and jewelry inside a bush next to a house in hopes that someone will take care of them it was her only choice if she would've taken them with her they all would've died. Suyuan loses her entire family and moves to California, remarries, learns English, and has a child(jing mei). Finally, she dies because of a blood vessel in her brain burst after yelling too …show more content…
This type of narration allows you to see the story from different point of views and understand what was done and why. If only one mother would have narrated the whole story the whole thing would've been different, including plot, setting,and bias. Which would have resulted in everything to be a very limited point of view. Same thing if it was narrated by only one daughter. This book is unique because it went in depth which one character cannot achieve. This book is different from anything i've ever read because it's just stories crammed into chapter with little plot twists, every character is related or connected in some