The Jade Peony
What do you know about Grandmama’s past?
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To Liang, she is Poh-Poh, a Cantonese word for “grandmother.” To Sekky, she is “Grandmama,” and to everyone, she is respectfully known as the Old One. The Old One was born with a birth defect that made her “ugly,” and her father abandoned the family upon her birth, because she was a girl.