Denied love from her parents, she finds some solace in relationships with her grandfather Ye Ye, and her Aunt Baba, but they are taken from her. The book outlines Adeline’s struggle to find a place where she feels she belongs.
She displayed overt antagonism and distrust towards all of the children, particularly Adeline, whilst favoring her own younger son and daughter born soon after the marriage. This situation is compounded by her father’s new marriage to a lady who has little affection for her husband’s five children. Adeline’s mother died shortly after her birth due to complications bought on by the delivery, and in Chinese culture this marks her as cursed or ‘bad luck’ (p.3). Born the fifth child to an affluent Chinese family her life begins tragically. This book is the moving autobiography of a young Chinese girl, Adeline Yen Mah.
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