so sweet and sentimental and sad. i really enjoyed this book. Frank Li is a Korean-American teenager with Korean parents who want him to date Korean girls only, and everything gets complicated when he falls in love with a white girl, Brit, and fake-dates his friend Joy to hide Brit from his parents. i really loved the various representations of family in this book and how family was developed and strengthened along the way. Frank’s parents are flawed, as all parents are, but they all love each other and ain’t that really all that matters? i also though David Yoon did an excellent job of capturing that age of adolescence between high school and college where you don’t know who you are or who you’re going to be and you’re sad to be leaving one life behind but excited to start a new one. the issues of identity, both racial and personal, were super poignant and i loved that every character went through their own self discovery. the kids and parents were all really funny and the cringe level for teen lingo was overall pretty low. i will say that i didn’t love the romance(s) and i found the family and friendship aspects to be much more interesting. the romance was way too insta-lovey and we had basically no background on the love interest(s) before everyone was exchanging “i love you”s which bothered me a lot. idk if that’s just because that’s not how i acted as a teenager or if these kids were really just goin for it with no precedence