Mitzi noticed that the title could have two meanings, and both apply to the book. It is set in Shanghai and California. Shanghai is distant and troubling, even when the daughter is living there; and for most of the book the father is distant, even when they are together. We see everything through the daughter's eyes and we grow up with her. She gives up on her father but can never give him up.
This is a very emotional book and very true. Fathers are important in their children's lives, even when they don't deserve to be. Redemption is hard to earn and a grace given with difficulty and sacrifice. How precious children are. How easy to be busy and selfish.
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