The girl born in Seoul with an adoptive mother from the Netherlands and a father with a completely English name. Who all lived on a farm in Frome, Washington, an actual farm, with actual animals, actual sheep that got sold to slaughter—a topic Angela kept quiet about as it wouldn’t have gone down well with the vegetarians at school. They were, in short, about as American as you could be. But not, of course, the kind of Americans certain other kinds of Americans thought were American.

