Excerpt from Chapter One

My great-grandmother gave birth to and lost three sons, none of whom survived beyond their second birthday, and although in the end she gave Leung six children who survived to adulthood, they were all girls.

Some of my grandmother’s first memories are of her brothers’ deaths. She remembers the eldest sleeping in his cot one night, and then, the next day when he did not wake, the way her mother screamed. A dark cloud fell on the house. For months her parents were tearful and solemn; no one in the family was allowed to speak about what had happened.

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