Pearl is already burdened by a secret: She’s been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, though the main symptom so far is only fatigue. Winnie can’t let go of Pearl and assumes a huge burden of responsibility for her, but it’s Pearl who feels crushed by it. Born in Shanghai, now in her 70s and still running a flower shop in San Francisco’s Chinatown, Winnie Louie is summed up pretty well in her daughter’s narration of a disastrous weekend in which Pearl and her husband, Phil, and their two small daughters attend a family dinner and her great-aunt’s funeral. Pearl Louie, a Chinese-American speech therapist in her early 40s, has come to dread visiting her widowed mother, Winnie.
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