These connected stories follow Fiona and Jane semi-linearly from childhood to early middle age. They're both Taiwanese American growing up in LA, but Fiona was born in Taiwan and Jane in the US. They are close through high school, but lose touch for a bit when Fiona moves to NYC with a boyfriend after college, and Jane stays on the west coast, doesn't finish college, and mostly dates women.

I'm not much of a short story reader, but these stories being connected helped. Still, I feel like this kind of storytelling is lazy, rather than creative. I'm a bum, and I don't want to bounce around the world the author created; I want to be led through it and told what to look at when.