Bitter Melon
Frances, a Chinese-American student in a competitive school in San Francisco in the 1980s, begins to question her mother's insistence that she becomes a doctor when she accidentally enrolls in a speech class and discovers a hidden talent.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 7
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 730
subjects: mother-daughter relationship [X], self-realization [X], child abuse, high schools, chinese americans, san francisco (calif.) [X]