Laura/Yuyang was born in Wuhan, China, and raised mostly in Coppell, Texas. Yep, Wuhan, so Covid for her was kind of like being Arab after 9/11. Most of the memoir, though, is about her coming of age and growing into her identities. In college at U Penn, she learns that Asians are cool, and she realizes she's that she's queer. She moves to San Francisco after college and finds he way back to her birth family and culture.