Jess confessed her suspicions only once, on the phone to her mother, in a moment of weakness. “He just cares so much,” she cried. “I feel like—I feel like he looks at her, and all he sees is what I couldn’t give him. And I’m scared—it could be—” What hung in the air: that Nina is white, and Chris is white, and Nina’s husband Harry is Asian. 21 “Well, I guess we’ll know soon enough,” said her mother, and this left Jess sobbing with laughter.
