tickets

I’d say thaat this story really finishes the book off very nicely because it brings it all together in one final sort of moment. It was funny to me how somehow out of the blue Jing-Mei’s great aunt was there and talking about what her father was like as a little kid. And it seemed ironic to me that everybody in the family wanted American food while Jing-Mei was eager to try real Chinese food. Then Jing-Mei’s family recounts her mothers journey from her home to her husband’s home. The journey it seems was extremely rough, and it seems many people were also fleeing. While it does kind of confuse me as to why she left her children on the side of the road, I can also understand it at the same time. I can see that while hundreds of people were fleeing death Jing-Mei’s mother had no food and no water for days and she was carrying twins that needed things she couldn’t provide. So she had to do it. She had to leave her children alone, and it seems that her wish came true. I really liked the whole book very much.