Sothy, Tevy, and Kayley

In "Three Women of Chuck's Donuts," Sothy, Tevy, and Kayley are the three women who own and work at Chuck's Donuts. Tevy and Kayley are sisters, and Sothy is their mother. The girls are second generation, and their parents are first generation, having immigrated to California to escape the Cambodian genocide.

In the narrative present, Sothy is struggling to keep the donut shop alive. Not long prior, she received a call informing her that she had defaulted on her loan for the shop. She soon discovered that her husband had been using all of the money she had been giving him to pay to his uncle for the shop loan to support his second family in the next town over. During the divorce proceedings, Sothy made a deal with her husband: she got to keep the shop, and custody of the girls, and he had...