ditzy flapper juliette, who was meant to help her survive the west, had dug her claws in so deep that the real juliette didn’t know where the facade stopped and where her true self began—if there was even anything left of her true self, or if there was anything in there to begin with. all her cousins—rosalind, kathleen, tyler—they had english names to accommodate to the flood of westerners controlling shanghai, but their chinese names still existed as part of their identity; their relatives still addressed them as such on the occasion. juliette was only ever juliette.