From childhood, Ruth Young's relationship with her mother was "explosive." She made scandals for any reason, either threatened to kill herself, or promised to die from an incurable disease, and constantly forced her daughter to communicate with the ghost of the long-dead Precious Aunt. And now that Ruth has started her own family, her mother, an elderly immigrant from China, begins to retrieve from the depths of her memory the shocking details of her former life on the other side of the world... The famous American writer Amy Tan psychologically accurately explores the secrets of the human soul and the vicissitudes of the destinies of immigrants from the Middle Kingdom.< /p>