The story's protagonist, Ivy, isn’t the typical heroine. She’s a master of deceit, determined to fit into the white Protestant community she’s growing up in just outside of Boston.
As a Chinese immigrant, she strives for the glamorous life she associates with being American — through any means necessary. This includes frequent stealing, which her grandmother taught her how to do as a young girl. Ivy's life as she knows it is flipped on its head when her mother discovers her bad habits and sends her back to China.
Years later and back in Boston, Ivy’s obsession with assimilation culminates in her childhood crush, Gideon, who, to her, epitomized everything sparkly about America. He and his family appeared to have it all, but when she reunites with him as an adult, the reader finds cracks in this perfect façade.1.
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