You\'re not allowed to Have a Girlfriend Until college, my mother warned.
And you\'d better get Into an Ivy League school In David Tung Can\'t Have a Girlfriend Until He Gets Into an Ivy League College, novelist Ed Lin conjures up a fast-paced, acid-tongued, hilario.
While David faces parental pressures to get As and conform to cultural norms and expectations, he\'s caught up in the complicated world of high school love triangles--and amid these external pressures is the fear he will die alone, whether he Gets Into Harvard or not You\'re not allowed to Have a Girlfriend Until college, my mother warned.
David Tung, our nerd-hero, is a Chinese American high-school student who works in his family\'s restaurant, competes for top grades at his regular high school located in an upscale, Asian-majority New Jersey suburb, and attends weekend Chinese school in NYC\'s working-class Chinatown.
Both playful and wryly observant, Ed Lin\'s YA-debut explores coming-of-age in the Asian diaspora while navigating relationships through race, class, and young love.
And you\'d better get Into an Ivy League school In David Tung Can\'t Have a Girlfriend Until He Gets Into an Ivy League College, novelist Ed Lin conjures up a fast-paced, acid-tongued, hilarious teen drama for our age, says Marie Myung-Ok Lee, acclaimed author of Somebody\'s Daughter and Finding My Voice.
While David faces parental pressures to get As and conform to cultural norms and expectations, he\'s caught up in the complicated world of high school love triangles--and amid these external pressures is the fear he will die alone, whether he Gets Into Harvard or not --David Henry Hwang You\'re not allowed to Have a Girlfriend Until college, my mother warned.
David Tung, our nerd-hero, is a Chinese American high-school student who works in his family\'s restaurant, competes for top grades at his regular high school located in an upscale, Asian-majority New Jersey suburb, and attends weekend Chinese school in NYC\'s working-class Chinatown.
Both playful and wryly observant, Ed Lin\'s YA-debut explores coming-of-age in the Asian diaspora while navigating relationships through race, class, and young love.
And you\'d better get Into an Ivy League school In David Tung Can\'t Have a Girlfriend Until He Gets Into an Ivy League College, novelist Ed Lin conjures up a fast-paced, acid-tongued, hilarious teen drama for our age, says Marie Myung-Ok Lee, acclaimed author of Somebody\'s Daughter and Finding My Voice.
You\'re not allowed to Have a Girlfriend Until college, my mother warned
