![]() ![]() Start a free 30-day trial today and get your first. ![]() Now all she has to do is get into a good medical school, become a doctor, and marry a nice Taiwanese boy. ![]() Mei, a 17-year-old freshman at MIT, has followed her parents’ plans so far. 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 isn't always so black and white. American Panda by Chao, Gloria Author: Gloria Chao Genre: Young Adult Fiction, Juvenile Fiction Topic: Family / General (See Also Headings under Social. Listen to American Panda by Gloria Chao available from Rakuten Kobo. A Taiwanese-American girl finally starts to experience life beyond her overbearing parents. 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. ![]() With everything her parents have sacrificed to make her cushy life a reality, Mei can't bring herself to tell them the truth - that she (one) hates germs, (two) falls asleep in biology lectures, and (three) has a crush on her classmate Darren Takahashi, who is decidedly not Taiwanese. 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. At 17, Mei should be in high school, but skipping fourth grade was part of her parents' master plan. An 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. ![]()
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