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Win me something : a novel
- Title
- Win me something : a novel / Kyle Lucia Wu.
- Author
- Wu, Kyle Lucia, 1989-
- Publication
- Portland, Oregon : Tin House, 2021.
- ©2021
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 22-933 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 263 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "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"--
- Subject
- Chinese Americans > Fiction
- Racially mixed people > Fiction
- Nannies > Fiction
- Children of divorced parents > Fiction
- Families > Fiction
- Identity (Psychology) > Fiction
- FICTION / Coming of Age
- FICTION / Cultural Heritage
- FICTION / Asian American
- Racially mixed people
- Nannies
- Identity (Psychology)
- Children of divorced parents
- Chinese Americans
- Families
- Genre/Form
- Bildungsromans.
- Novels.
- Fiction.
- Note
- Subtitle from cover.
- Includes a Reader's guide.
- Call Number
- JFD 22-933
- ISBN
- 9781951142735
- 195114273X
- LCCN
- 2021019392
- 40030839023
- OCLC
- 1236090442
- Author
- Wu, Kyle Lucia, 1989- author.
- Title
- Win me something : a novel / Kyle Lucia Wu.
- Publisher
- Portland, Oregon : Tin House, 2021.
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Edition
- First US edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40030839023
- Research Call Number
- JFD 22-933