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Win me something, Kyle Lucia Wu

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Win me something

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Kyle Lucia Wu

A perceptive and powerful debut of identity and belonging-of a young woman determined to be seen.Willa Chen has never quite fit in. Growing up as a biracial Chinese American girl in New Jersey, Willa felt both hypervisible and unseen, too Asian to fit in at her mostly white school, and too white to speak to the few Asian kids around. After her parents' early divorce, they both remarried and started new families, and Willa grew up feeling outside of their new lives, too.For years, Willa does her best to stifle her feelings of loneliness, drifting through high school and then college as she tries to quiet the unease inside her. But when she begins working for the Adriens-a wealthy white family in Tribeca-as a nanny for their daughter, Bijou, Willa is confronted with all of the things she never had. As she draws closer to the family and eventually moves in with them, Willa finds herself questioning who she is, and revisiting a childhood where she never felt fully at home. Self-examining and fraught with the emotions of a family who fails and loves in equal measure, Win Me Something is a nuanced coming-of-age debut about the irreparable fissures between people, and a young woman who asks what it really means to belong, and how she might begin to define her own life. "Wu's beautifully observed coming-of-age tale is a poignant and lyrical meditation on navigating the world with a fragmented sense of self." "Explores loneliness, uncertainty, and a singular, persistent question-where do I truly belong?" "A sad, funny, and tender coming-of-age story." "Taut, engrossing, and masterfully observed." "Each sentence unfolds like a miracle." "A resonant knockout." "Through the characters' kinships-some familial, some chosen-Wu brilliantly lays out the complicated dynamics of love, belonging, and care that exist within all relationships." "Tenderly and masterfully reveals the fury, hope, and longing that come with trying to be seen in a world that never looks for you." "Impressive...Expect subtle surprises as Willa's relationships evolve in a satisfying accumulation of carefully drawn small moments that build toward her understanding, even acceptance, of both an imperfect world and herself."

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