I had to think on this book for a few days before I wrote my review, because I liked it so much, and because it made me mad but I wanted to understand why.
Danny spends his whole life thinking one thing about his family and eventually finds out it's all a lie. I like reading about the high expectations being a child of an immigrant placed on him and trying to understand that life better. The author did a good job of showing us how a teenager today has to deal with the pressures of school, friends, parents and romantic feelings. It stressed me out just reading it and made me think a little about how much pressure I put on my own teen daughters.
What made me mad...Danny's dad. I get that he was an immigrant, I get that he wanted the best for his son, and in the end I get why he sent his daughter away when she came to find him. But gosh he was so so selfish. He really never took in to account what his wife wanted, not when they lived in their home country and were making the decision to come to the U.S., not when she asked him to stop his experiment, and he didn't tell her about their daughter coming to visit him. He never took in to account how it would affect Danny pulling him out of school right before graduation, I get he was trying to hide but geez. The man thought of nothing but himself. And in the end I think it was really the mom who decided to do what they did to give Danny a chance.
Great book, look forward to more from this writer.
Danny spends his whole life thinking one thing about his family and eventually finds out it's all a lie. I like reading about the high expectations being a child of an immigrant placed on him and trying to understand that life better. The author did a good job of showing us how a teenager today has to deal with the pressures of school, friends, parents and romantic feelings. It stressed me out just reading it and made me think a little about how much pressure I put on my own teen daughters.
What made me mad...Danny's dad. I get that he was an immigrant, I get that he wanted the best for his son, and in the end I get why he sent his daughter away when she came to find him. But gosh he was so so selfish. He really never took in to account what his wife wanted, not when they lived in their home country and were making the decision to come to the U.S., not when she asked him to stop his experiment, and he didn't tell her about their daughter coming to visit him. He never took in to account how it would affect Danny pulling him out of school right before graduation, I get he was trying to hide but geez. The man thought of nothing but himself. And in the end I think it was really the mom who decided to do what they did to give Danny a chance.
Great book, look forward to more from this writer.