Kay is the final hope of our dysfunctional Vietnamese-American family. I have found myself casually examining her for the wounds we have inadvertently inflicted. It is your responsibility, Father always says to us, to set a good example for your younger siblings. I abandoned my career in favor of a dream. Tien, an exceptional student, couldn’t make up his mind about the trajectory of his education. Huy and Hien are gay. And not one of us breathed a word of Chi’s existence to Kay in all these years. She never knew she had a runaway sister. To Kay, Chi came home in a shroud of mystery and died a
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