American panda /
Chao, Gloria, 1986-
American panda / Gloria Chao. - First Simon Pulse paperback edition. - New York, NY : Simon Pulse, 2019 - 310 p. ; 22 cm
"Contains excerpt of the next novel by Gloria Chao "Our Wayward fate."
A freshman at MIT, seventeen-year-old Mei Lu tries to live up to her Taiwanese parents' expectations, but no amount of tradition, obligation, or guilt prevent her from hiding several truths--that she is a germaphobe who cannot become a doctor, she prefers dancing to biology, she decides to reconnect with her estranged older brother, and she is dating a Japanese boy. Can she find a way to be herself, before her web of lies unravels?
1481499114 9781481499118
2018456368
Massachusetts Institute of Technology--Juvenile fiction.
Dating (Social customs)--Juvenile fiction.
Taiwanese Americans--Juvenile fiction.
Families--Juvenile fiction.
Secrecy--Juvenile fiction.
College students--Juvenile fiction.
Interracial dating--Juvenile fiction.
Phobias--Juvenile fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Humorous fiction.
Novels.
PZ7.1.C4825 / Am 2019
813.6
American panda / Gloria Chao. - First Simon Pulse paperback edition. - New York, NY : Simon Pulse, 2019 - 310 p. ; 22 cm
"Contains excerpt of the next novel by Gloria Chao "Our Wayward fate."
A freshman at MIT, seventeen-year-old Mei Lu tries to live up to her Taiwanese parents' expectations, but no amount of tradition, obligation, or guilt prevent her from hiding several truths--that she is a germaphobe who cannot become a doctor, she prefers dancing to biology, she decides to reconnect with her estranged older brother, and she is dating a Japanese boy. Can she find a way to be herself, before her web of lies unravels?
1481499114 9781481499118
2018456368
Massachusetts Institute of Technology--Juvenile fiction.
Dating (Social customs)--Juvenile fiction.
Taiwanese Americans--Juvenile fiction.
Families--Juvenile fiction.
Secrecy--Juvenile fiction.
College students--Juvenile fiction.
Interracial dating--Juvenile fiction.
Phobias--Juvenile fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Humorous fiction.
Novels.
PZ7.1.C4825 / Am 2019
813.6