An adult male character says to the protagonist, a young girl at this point, that he "needs a girl." She does not exactly understand what he means, but she lies and says she is younger than she is anyway. As the protagonist becomes a teenager, men pay her a lot of unwanted attention, in large part because she is the one Chinese person in a white settlement. Her friend's fiancé is particularly harassing. She tells her friend that this fiancé forced kisses on her and made sexual comments to her, but her friend does not believe her. The book ends with the protagonist's sibling having tricked her into being a sex worker to pay off the sibling's debts. Also worthy of note: the protagonist is a victim of domestic violence at the hands of her father.