Lena’s mother never spoke of her life in China. Her father had saved her mother from some kind of horrible life there. He helped her get a new life in America and named her Betty St. Clair. She did not speak the VERNACULAR of her new home, so she communicated with gestures and sounds.
She seemed to be scared of everything and was very superstitious. After they moved to San Francisco, she felt an unbalance around her. She did not like anything about the house and would rearrange the furniture daily. Soon, Lena realized that her mother was pregnant. Lena said her mother “did not speak of the joys of having a new baby; she talked about a heaviness around her, about things being out of balance, not in harmony with one another.” These feelings seemed to have truth about them because the baby died.
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