"Insane people were the ones who couldn't explain themselves. There were many crazy girls and women. Perhaps the sane people stayed in China to build new, sane society" (Kingston 180).
ok!
home of woman next door
come watch a sky-movie with me!
"There was a woman next door who was chatty one moment...and shut up the next. Then we would see silver heat rise from her body; it solidified before our eyes. She made us afraid, though she said nothing, did nothing" (Kington 180).
*stopped talking and face went blank*
why'd she stop talking? what's wrong with her?
Maxine Kingston and her family's home
I wonder where her husband took her? I hope she's okay.
"The next day, she disappeared, and people would say she had been taken to Napa or Agnew...Her husband rented out the house and also went away. Now while she was locked up in the asylum, he went, people said, to the Midwest" (Kingston 180).
home of woman next door
"A year or two passed. He returned to Napa to drive her home. As a present, he had brought with him from the Midwest a child, half Chinese and half white. People say it was his illegitimate son. She was the one who died happy, sitting on the steps after cooking diner" (Kingston 180).