JOY is an eight-year-old half-Filipina and half-African American who lives with her mentally unstable Filipina mother, MERCY in the province. Growing up with a cold relationship with her mother, she was made to believe by her grandmother that her father has been absent in their lives because he is JOY is an eight-year-old half-Filipina and half-African American who lives with her mentally unstable Filipina mother, MERCY in the province. Growing up with a cold relationship with her mother, she was made to believe by her grandmother that her father has been absent in their lives because he is on the moon. With so much void in her early life, Joy grapples with her own ident...
