Chapter Sixteen: Jing-Mei Woo - A Pair of Tickets; epiphany

The final chapter of the book is of Jing-Mei, June's, trip to China to meet her sisters. Before June departs for Shanghai, she asks Lindo Jong to inform ber sisters of their mother's death. In China, her father tells her the story of why her mom left. June is hesitant to meet her sisters because she doesnt know all the details of the story and feels as if she does not know her mother as well as her sisters. June has an epiphany, "And when she said this, I saw myself transforming like a werewolf, a mutant tag of DNA suddenly triggered, replicating itself insidiously into a syndrome, a cluster of telltale Chinese behaviors..."(267). June sees how her mother was right all along about how it is in her blood. She is Chinese and needs to act like it now. After finally meeting her sisters, she does not see much of their mother in them, but the girls are familiar.