Jade Nguyen has always lied to fit in. She's straight enough, Vietnamese enough, American enough …
"The savage ruined it," says Florence, repeating the translated phrase from the family portrait.
"One of those," I say. Of course we would find a racist's cache here. Hardly anything else is ever preserved in history. Even this single photograph of my great-grandmother as a child hiding in the curtains was branded.
— She Is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran (Page 137)