This collection of short stories transports the reader to the sizzling heat of Kuala Lumpur¿s streets, to crimson sunsets at Vancouver¿s bayside, and to the drizzly shores at Bible camp. The narrator, a young Chinese-Malaysian-Canadian girl, grapples with a simultaneously claustrophobic and distant relationship with her mother as she navigates her own teenage obstinacy, queer identity in the face of religion, and the universal pursuit of fitting in.