TY - BOOK AU - Chao,Gloria TI - American panda SN - 1481499114 AV - PZ7.1.C4825 Am 2019 U1 - 813.6 23 PY - 2019/// CY - New York, NY PB - Simon Pulse KW - Massachusetts Institute of Technology KW - Juvenile fiction KW - Dating (Social customs) KW - Taiwanese Americans KW - Families KW - Secrecy KW - College students KW - Interracial dating KW - Phobias KW - Bildungsromans KW - lcgft KW - Humorous fiction KW - Novels N1 - "Contains excerpt of the next novel by Gloria Chao "Our Wayward fate." N2 - 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? ER -