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The novel tells the story of a sixty-eight-year-old Chinese grandmother who has four generations living under one roof. Her mother still uses Chinese herbal medicine to treat arthritis, and her daughter, who cannot speak Chinese, has already integrated into American society, working as a bank manager and marrying an Irishman, John Shea. The old woman dislikes her son-in-law, but she has a long-lasting love for her mixed-race granddaughter Sophia, who is a Chinese-style old man. But Sophia never feels that the distant and fuzzy past has anything to do with her. The old woman tried to use the trick of "a stick produces a filial son", but was stopped by her son-in-law, but she finally succeeded in passing on Chinese food, clothing and the skill of using chopsticks to her child.

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"Typical Yankee" is an American story. The novel tells the painful struggle of three Chinese intellectuals who came to the United States in the 1940s to pursue their own American dreams. When the Zhang family consisting of Ralph Zhang, his sister Teresa, and his wife Helen first settled in the United States, due to the differences between American culture and Chinese culture, the Zhang family was particularly repulsive and had a certain disdain for American culture. However, in the process of pursuing their own "American Dream", the Zhang family faced two different values ​​and cultures, and fell into a series of dilemmas. In the process of self-reflection in loss and despair, they gradually understood the essence of the "typical Yankee" and became the "Yankee" they had previously despised.