Chapter 3 write about how do the author’s mother Faya and her father know each other. Faya’s life has an air of intense order, normalcy and unassailable respectability. So I think may be that’s why she would fall in love with Tara’s father. He is poor and lived in a mountain, but life is relax and free.
concoct:捏造 That air of respectability (体面，名扬) was carefully concocted by her mother.
jaundiced:因嫉妒等而有偏见的，患黄疸病（似)的 She’s grasping for humor but the memory is jaundiced.
hair-trigger容易触发的，一触即发的 a hair-trigger temper
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