Few places have undergone such a radical transformation as Asia in recent decades. The lives of each generation have proven vastly different from those of the one before and the one after. In this identity chaos, where rural villages and megacities coexist, it is difficult to keep pace with progress, reconcile the tensions between East and West, and simultaneously maintain traditions and ties with previous generations. Tash Aw reflects on this from a personal perspective. Her grandparents emigrated by boat from China to Malaysia in 1920. Her parents lived in a rural Malaysian village. Tash Aw spent her childhood there but was educated and spent much of her adult life in Singapore and the United Kingdom. Is there anything that connects these three generations? How does she interpret her identity based on these three histories?