This book explores different facets of Chinese American identity with pop culture and alternating points of view and style.

Arriving in her native Philippines for her beloved father’s funeral, Canadian writer Lorina Mapa begins to reminisce about her youth, growing up as the doted-upon daughter of a well-to-do family, listening to Western pop music and watching classic American films on video. All the while, the Philippines are in tumult as a popular uprising attempts to overthrow the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos and install into the presidency Corazon Aquino, the widow of assassinated congressman Benigno Aquino.