One Whole and Perfect Day Chapter 34 Summary

Racial Harmony

  • Back at home, Lily tells her mom how beautiful Clara is. She's generally pretty happy for Lonnie, but there's one little problem: Pop is majorly racist.
  • She tries to explain this to her mom, but Marigold isn't concerned. She says Pop is all bluff. Okay, Marigold—if that's the case, then please explain why he threatened Lonnie with an ax.
  • Lily has to do something to gauge whether Pop's racism is a threat to her dream of a Perfect Day, so she does what pretty much any normal teenage girl would do and prank calls him.
  • She tells him that she's from the Association for Racial Harmony and asks what he would do if he learned his grandchild was dating a person of another race.
  • Here's the thing, though: Stan figures out that it's Lily, and he gets her back by screaming into the phone that his granddaughter has no business getting married when she's sixteen. Lily hangs up the phone.
  • Regardless, Stan's gotten the message. He is pretty sure that the Chinese woman he met on his visit home is Clara's mother, and that while it's a coincidence, it's also not so hard to believe.