On the outside, 28-year-old Fiona Yu appears to be just another Hello Kitty -- an educated, well-mannered Asian-American woman. Secretly, she feels torn between the traditional Chinese values of her family and the social mores of being an American girl.
On the outside, twenty-eight-year-old Fiona Yu appears to be just another Hello Kitty--an educated, well-mannered Asian American woman. Secretly, she feels torn between the traditional Chinese values of her family and the social mores of being an American girl. To escape the bur…
In this debut novel, the author "skewers the stereotypes of Asian girls as Hello Kitties ... and captures the disaffection of being young and smart in a country drowning in excess and saturated in media"--Jacket.