Class and cultural differences and mistaken beliefs prove to be greater barriers to their romance than differences of mental wiring. As they fumble toward understanding each other, Esme searches for her American father and pursues higher education. Khai resolves to make the best of things until he can send Esme home, but their instant mutual attraction complicates matters. Ten years later, he’s a wealthy accountant, and his matchmaking mother informs him that Esme, an uneducated janitor she met in Vietnam, will be staying with him for the summer and is meant to be his eventual wife. California-born Khai processes emotions differently than most people do at age 16, when he doesn’t grieve in a conventional way over the death of a cousin, he thinks he’s incapable of feeling love. Hoang’s touching second contemporary romance (after The Kiss Quotient) explores what the American dream might mean to a young, mixed-race Vietnamese woman and the autistic Vietnamese-American man she’s matched up with.
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