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Win Me Something

By: Kyle Lucia Wu
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
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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.

©2021 Kyle Lucia Wu (P)2021 Blackstone Publishing
Asian American Coming of Age Family Life Fiction United States
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wonderful and most poignant in a special way...

super intimate and joys and curiosities of being young... the story "takes the cake" pleasing and poignant...

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A slow but meaningful story of race and childhood into adulthood

Lots of small moments make up this excellent book. Hidden messages mixed in with “ soft” racism really spoke to me.

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Unresolved

A story that really has no destination, and a main character who has no sense of self. There are opulent descriptions of living with wealth in NYC, but the characters are all sterile and cold. It was only the great narrator that brought any life to this flat, emotionless story.

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