The Jade Peony

She lay curled up, head to knee, beside her cot … One arm, caught between her legs, seemed to float on a spreading pool of blood.

私刑式悲剧收束情节，plot 88。

Poh-Poh insisted we simplify our kinship terms in Canada, so my mother became “Stepmother.”

称谓即权力，cast 93。

“What harm could it do?” he argued, putting down his Bible. “You can respect your mother and still be modern.”

祭祖辩论换挡，pace 87。

sharing Three Flowers perfume, easily chatting away, fluttering voices, like butterflies of palest amber, gossiping.

记忆嗅觉密，prose 94。

Poh-Poh, was going regularly to our family Tong Association Temple on Pender Street to pray for a boy.

会馆街景立世界，world 95。

THE OLD MAN FIRST VISITED our house when I was five, in 1933.

访客开门即史，hook 92。

“This is the way things are, Jung-Sum.” And I knew it was so, and could no longer worry about demon foxes.

收养夜换叙事声部，innov 90。

“Mother,” I said. “I’m here.” She reached out to me. I took her hand and pressed into her palm the carved pendant Grandmama had left to me.

玉牡丹传代收束，ending 96。