Brave Orchid’s niece and Kingston’s cousin, she lives in Los Angeles with her own husband and children, but she stays with her aunt and cousins while they await Moon Orchid’s arrival to California from Hong Kong. Brave Orchid perceives her niece as she perceives her mother—“the lovely, useless type.” When Moon Orchid’s daughter announces that she must return to Los Angeles, Brave Orchid decides that they will all drive south so that Moon Orchid can be reunited with her husband. When this does not work out, Moon Orchid goes to live with her daughter; then, after she experiences a series of paranoid attacks, her daughter has Moon Orchid committed to a state asylum.