My summer of love and misfortune / Lindsay Wong.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : Simon Pulse, 2020Edition: First Simon Pulse editionDescription: 376 pages ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781534443341
- 1534443347
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Main Library | YA Fiction | WONG, LINDSAY | Available | 33111009650124 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Crazy Rich Asians meets Love & Gelato in this hilarious, quirky novel about a Chinese-American teen who is thrust into the decadent world of Beijing high society when she is sent away to spend the summer in China.
Iris Wang is having a bit of a rough start to her summer: Her boyfriend cheated on her, she didn't get into any colleges, and she has no idea who she is or what she wants to do with her life. She's always felt torn about being Chinese-American, feeling neither Chinese nor American enough to claim either identity. She's just a sad pizza combo from Domino's, as far as she's concerned.
In an attempt to snap her out of her funk, Iris's parents send her away to visit family in Beijing, with the hopes that Iris would "reconnect with her culture" and "find herself." Iris resents the condescension, but even she admits that this might be a good opportunity to hit the reset button on the apocalyptic disaster that has become her life.
With this trip, Iris expects to eat a few dumplings, meet some family, and visit a tourist hotspot or two. Instead, she gets swept up in the ridiculous, opulent world of Beijing's wealthy elite, leading her to unexpected and extraordinary discoveries about her family, her future, and herself.
Ages 12 and Up. Simon Pulse.
Grades 10-12. Simon Pulse.
After a series of disastrous choices and rejections, seventeen-year-old Chinese American Iris Wang is thrust into the decadent world of Beijing high society as her cousin's English tutor.
In an attempt to snap her out of a funk, Iris Wang's parents send her to visit family in Beijing, with the hopes that Iris will 'reconnect with her culture' and 'find herself.' Iris expects to eat a few dumplings, meet some of her family, and visit a tourist hotspot or two. What she doesn't expect is to meet a handsome Mandarin-language tutor named Frank and to be swept up in the ridiculous, opulent world of Beijing's wealthy elite. Or making extraordinary discoveries about her family, her future, and herself. -- adapted from jacket.