"Clarice", whose birth name is Phùng Ngọc Ánh, was the rape child of a pro-North Vietnam Chinese soldier and a Vietnamese farmer, Nhã, who fled during her pregnancy to Saigon for protection during the prelude of the Tet Offensive. Despite the circumstances of her conception and the emotional difficulties her mother sustained, Ánh was given the chance to live and was nursed by her female relatives who lived in an uncomfortably cramped apartment in central Saigon. When it was announced the Viet Cong were only a day's march from Saigon, Ánh and her mother were among the fortunate thousands who fled Vietnam by boat, famously recorded as the "Boat People", and were among the expatriates who settled in Vancouver, Canada. Ánh was taught how to speak English and understand Canadian culture & Western values and easily integrated into Canadian society despite varying cultural differences. Nhã's adaptation to Western society transformed her into one of the infamous "Tiger Parents", leading to a strict but well-meaning parenthood and had Ánh study Nursing.

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