Summary

This section of the novel signifies the Wangs on their road trip. From here, chapters that feature the family in the car driving toward Saina's home in Helios, New York also include the mileage from the Bel-Air home. Chapters about Saina do not feature mileage.

As Grace waited for her family to arrive, she learned that the laptop that contained all of her blogging materials was actually school property that had not yet been paid for. Upon realizing she would not be able to take the computer with her, she urgently attempted to download the large picture files before her father arrived. Waiting, she thought of her father, who often expected her to understand allusions to Chinese poetry when she could not speak the language. Charles arrived when the download was only half complete, and when he realized what she was trying to...