01843cam a2200301 4500 560655326 TxAuBib 20220615120000.0 200121s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020002254 9781982100599 hardback 1982100591 hardback (OCoLC)1137748323 TxAuBib Yang, Susie, author. White Ivy / Susie Yang. First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2020. ©2020. 354 pages ; 24 cm. Ivy Lin, a Chinese immigrant growing up in a low-income apartment complex outside Boston, is desperate to assimilate with her American peers. Her parents disapprove, berating her for her mediocre grades and what they see as her lazy, entitled attitude. But Ivy has a secret weapon, her grandmother Meifeng, from whom she learns to shoplift to get the things she needs to fit in. Ivy develops a taste for winning and for wealth. As an adult, she reconnects with the blond-haired golden boy of a prominent political family, and thinks it's fate. But just as Ivy is about to have everything she's ever wanted, a ghost from her past resurfaces, threatening the almost-perfect life she's worked so hard to build. Filled with surprising twists, and offering sharp insights into the immigrant experience, White Ivy is both a love triangle and a coming-of-age story - as well as a dark glimpse at what can happen when we yearn for success at any cost. 20220615. Chinese American women Fiction. Identity (Psychology) Fiction. Man-woman relationships Fiction. Romance fiction. TXPLE