â€œWeepingly funny.â€ â€”The Wall Street Journal â€œDelightful.â€ â€”BuzzFeed â€œCharmed my socks off.â€ â€”David Arnold,

American Panda

â€œWeepingly funny.â€ â€”The Wall Street Journal
â€œDelightful.â€ â€”BuzzFeed
â€œCharmed my socks off.â€ â€”David Arnold, New York Times bestselling author of Kids of Appetite and Mosquitoland

Four starred reviews for this incisive, laugh-out-loud contemporary debut about a Taiwanese-American teen whose parents want her to be a doctor and marry a Taiwanese Ivy Leaguer despite her squeamishness with germs and crush on a Japanese classmate.

At seventeen, Mei should be in high school, but skipping fourth grade was part of her parentsâ€™ master plan. Now a freshman at MIT, she is on track to fulfill the rest of this predetermined future: become a doctor, marry a preapproved Taiwanese Ivy Leaguer, produce a litter of babies.

With everything her parents have sacrificed to make her cushy life a reality, Mei canâ€™t bring herself to tell them the truthâ€”that she (1) hates germs, (2) falls asleep in biology lectures, and (3) has a crush on her classmate Darren Takahashi, who is decidedly not Taiwanese.

But when Mei reconnects with her brother, Xing, who is estranged from the family for dating the wrong woman, Mei starts to wonder if all the secrets are truly worth it. Can she find a way to be herself, whoever that is, before her web of lies unravels?

From debut author Gloria Chao comes a hilarious, heartfelt tale of how, unlike the panda, life isnâ€™t always so black and white.
Country USA
Brand Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2019-07-02
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781481499118

Country	USA
Brand	Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Binding	Paperback
ReleaseDate	2019-07-02
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781481499118

American Panda

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