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My summer of love and misfortune, Lindsay Wong

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fiction

My summer of love and misfortune

Lindsay Wong

Iris Wang is having a bit of a rough start to her summer: her boyfriend cheated on her, she didn't get into any colleges, and she has no idea who she is or what she wants to do with her life, having always been torn about being Chinese American, feeling neither Chinese nor American enough to claim either identity. She's just a sad pizza combo from Domino's, as far as she's concerned. In an attempt to snap her out of her funk, Iris's parents send her away to visit family in Beijing, with the hopes that Iris will "reconnect with her culture" and "find herself". Iris resents her parents' condescension, but even she admits that this might be a good opportunity to hit the reset button on the apocalyptic disaster that has become her life. With this trip, Iris expects to eat a few dumplings, meet some family, and visit a tourist hot spot or two. What she doesn't expect is to be swept up in the ridiculous, opulent world of Beijing's elite, leading her to unexpected and extraordinary discoveries about her family, her future, and herself

adolescent