Which sentence about Amy Tan's mother in “Fish Cheeks” has the most positive connotation? On Christmas Eve I saw that my mother had outdone herself in creating a strange menu.
She was pulling black veins out of the backs of fleshy prawns.
After everyone had gone, my mother said to me, “You want to be the same as American girls on the outside.”
For Christmas Eve that year, she had chosen all my favorite foods.