After a viral video costs her a spot at Columbia Law, her prestigious Manhattan law firm internship, and her hopes to build a better life for herself and her mother, Shelley Hu returns home to Florida, where new friend Sophia proposes a plan to rebuild her identity and exact revenge on those who brought her down.
Are parts of the book borderline absurd? Absolutely. But that doesn’t make it any less thrilling—and it’s not without depth, either ... Explores myriad complex, interconnected aspects of the last decade’s zeitgeist, including race, power, rage, vengeance, unconditional love, faith, and morality. It also adds texture to some well-trodden narratives around the immigrant experience in general and the many different communities that make up Asian America in particular. A strangely dark, seductive debut novel.
