At the same time, she finds herself drawn to the cool and aloof Alex Kim (even though she swears he’s not her type). When he embarks on a book tour with the “super kawaii” Japanese author he’s translated, doubts and insecurities creep in. In the aftermath, nothing looks quite the same to Ingrid-including her gentle and doting fiancé, Stephen Greene. With her trusty friend Eunice Kim by her side and her rival Vivian Vo hot on her tail, together they set off a roller coaster of mishaps and misadventures, from campus protests and OTC drug hallucinations, to book burnings and a movement that stinks of “Yellow Peril” propaganda. Her clumsy exploits to unravel the note’s message lead to an explosive discovery, one that upends her entire life and the lives of those around her. When she accidentally stumbles upon a strange and curious note in the Chou archives, she convinces herself it’s her ticket out of academic hell.īut Ingrid’s in much deeper than she thinks.

But after four years of grueling research, she has nothing but anxiety and stomach pain to show for her efforts. Twenty-nine-year-old PhD student Ingrid Yang is desperate to finish her dissertation on the late canonical poet Xiao-Wen Chou and never read about “Chinese-y” things again. A Taiwanese American woman’s coming-of-consciousness ignites eye-opening revelations and chaos on a college campus in this outrageously hilarious and startlingly tender debut novel

Savvy sheldon feels good as hell