![]() ![]() After her death, Jack finds a letter she has written to him, telling him the story of her life, explaining how much she loves him, and noting how hurt she is by his rejection. Jack’s mother remains estranged from her son up until she dies of cancer while he is in college. Yet after Jack experiences racist bullying from a neighborhood boy, Mark, he turns against her and rejects his Chinese heritage: he demands she speak English, asks to eat only American food at home, and boxes up the paper animals. She makes him the magic paper animals that her own mother taught her how to craft. When Jack is a child, she is very close to him. After Jack is born, however, she feels happy and reconnected to the family she has lost. At first, she feels isolated and misunderstood in America. Through the introduction service, she meets Jack’s father, marries him, and immigrates to America. At age 16, to escape the family that bought her, she signs up for an introduction service that matches American men with Asian women. Afterward, human traffickers find her and sell her as a domestic slave in Hong Kong. ![]() When she is ten, both her parents die in the Chinese Cultural Revolution. In early childhood, she learns from her mother how to fold paper into animals and breathe magic life into them. ![]() ![]() Jack’s mother is born in the 1950s in China. ![]()
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