Mismatch
Sue Hua just moved from racially diverse Seattle to a suburban white-bread town where she feels like the only Asian American for miles. Then she meets Andy, a handsome and passionate violin player who happens to be Asian American. Sue feels an instant attraction to Andy, and her white friends...
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Sue Hua just moved from racially diverse Seattle to a suburban white-bread town where she feels like the only Asian American for miles. Then she meets Andy, a handsome and passionate violin player who happens to be Asian American. Sue feels an instant attraction to Andy, and her white friends think they’re “made for each other”–after all, they both use chopsticks and eat a lot of rice, right? But there’s just one problem. Andy’s last name is Suzuki. And while that may mean nothing to the other students at Lakeview High, Sue knows that it presents a world of problems to her family.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780385731836 (0385731833)
Publish date: February 14th 2006
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Teen,
Novels,
Cultural,
Romance,
Contemporary,
Asian Literature,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit,
China,
Japanese Literature
I wanted to like this book, but nothing in it quite worked for me. It's an issue book that didn't satisfactorily deal with the issues. Like, it's pretty didactic but not very explicit. I just wanted one character to make the distinction between ethnicity and nationality (seriously, if everyone tho...