Even though she is eighteen and no longer in the United States foster care system, she is very intelligent and ambitious and loves knowing her past even if she knows it can hurt. find out where it comes from. She attends an Ivy League school and continues to reach out and see what it was like as a baby in Vietnam. I would like to believe that if I was placed in another country as a child, I would want to know my true country of origin. I may not have been born in Ireland, but my ancestors were from there, so I'm naturally a little curious about how my whole family came to America. She's struggling because she doesn't have much information about her past, but she goes to visit Huan and Gwen anyway so she can still see what her family's past was like. Kim had a more bitter attitude and she tried to find her real mother in Vietnam. In America, she seems to lead a dark life because she wouldn't be able to connect with who she was supposed to be if she grew up in Vietnam. I can see Huan's side of the story because he is mixed race and cannot fully side with the Vietnamese because they do not fully see himself as himself. When he was dating Emily he even mentioned that it would be better if he was even half white it would be better and if he was fully Vietnamese it would be amazing. Instead, he has to deal with being seen as different when he already doesn't want to be visiting Vietnam. In the end though, I think he enjoyed it a little more than I thought, but he was still uncomfortable exploring a past that he considers a period of his life where he was unwanted. Even if you are from another country, you may still wonder about the past, because when you are young you don't remember it as well.