I’m usually not a huge historical fiction person but I didn’t struggle with this book at all. Other reviewers have mentioned it’s a slow read but I found that the setting of 1950’s Chinatown in San Francisco and the lesbian culture at the time to be fascinating and kept me riveted. The author did a great job of balancing these two cultures and how a young Chinese American girl might feel divided by these parts of her identity. The love story was really sweet and the ending touching, realistic, and poignant.