"The Kong women are in crisis. A disastrous trip to visit her home orphanage in China has plunged eighteen-year-old Ari into a self-destructive spiral. Her adoptive mother, Charlie, a lawyer with a great heart, is desperate to keep her daughter safe. Meanwhile, Charlie must endure the prickly scrutiny of her beautiful, Bryn Mawr educated mother, Gran, who, as the daughter of a cultured Chinese doctor, came to America to survive Mao's Revolution and her sister, Les, a brilliant judge with a penchant for ruling over everyone's lives"--Publisher's website.