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An incisive, laugh-out-loud modern-day debut in regards to a Taiwanese-American teen whose parents want her to be always a doctor and marry a Taiwanese Ivy Leaguer despite her squeamishness with germs and crush over a Japanese classmate. At 17, Mei should be in senior high school, but missing fourth class was part of her parents' grasp plan. Now a freshman at MIT, she actually is on track to satisfy the rest of the predetermined future: turn into a doctor, marry a preapproved Taiwanese Ivy Leaguer, create a litter of newborns. With everything her parents have sacrificed to make her cushy life a reality, Mei can't bring herself to inform them the truth - that she (one) hates germs, (two) comes asleep in biology lectures, and (three) has a crush on her behalf classmate Darren Takahashi, who's decidedly not Taiwanese. However when Mei reconnects with her brother, Xing, who's estranged from the family for seeing the wrong girl, Mei starts to think about if all the secrets are truly worth it. Can she discover a way to be herself, whoever that is, before her web of lies unravels? From debut author Gloria Chao comes a hilarious, heartfelt story of how unlike the panda, life isn't always so dark and white.
