Answer:
Waverly "Meimei" Jong
Explanation:
The story is narrated by Waverly "Meimei" Jong, a Chinese American woman who recounts her childhood as a young Chinese daughter of immigrants growing up in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s. Jong is named after the street where she lived in a flat above a Chinese bakery, but she is known as Meimei, meaning ‘Little Sister’.
The <em>“Thylacine”</em>, best kwon as a "Tasmanian Tiger", was kind of a marsupial wolf now extinct. It was a carnivore predator that ambushed its preys.
Thylacines or Tasmanian Tigers were part of the <em>Australian</em> landscape in the past. Two things influenced the diminish of Thylacines: the arrival of men 40,000 years ago, and the dingo dogs brought by men about 4,000 years ago.
The last species of Tasmanian Tigers were taken the island of Tasmania. The last of the species dissapeared in the mid-1930’s.
