1.   Four women narrate this novel, which tells a complicated family history that unfolds during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines.

2.   Judd, the youngest son, narrates the novel, looking back as an adult on his fractured family.

3.   The novel is narrated by Jack, a psychiatrist, who is deeply involved with his sister Kate.

4.   The novel is narrated by Talcott Garland, a law professor at a place much like Yale.

5.   The novel is narrated by the son of the man she loved but had forsaken for her father.

6.   This compact novel is narrated from the grave by a woman who committed suicide to punish her mother and thus escape the traditional Chinese culture of obedience.