Mina's life is a lie. She has lied to her parents about everything from her grades and accomplishments at school to adjusting the receipts at the family's dry cleaning business to save money so that she can escape her Korean-American family. She's grounded by her hearing-impared sister Suna and the responsibility she feels for her. Two boys are entwined in her life - Jonathon, the boy Mina's mother thinks is perfect for her, and Ysrael, a migrant-worker who is hired to work in the dry cleaners, but who is not the kind of young man Mina's family wants her to date. Ysrael makes Mina look at herself in a way no one else ever has. Nothing is as it seems in Mina's life.
Interesting book. I kept wanting Mina to come clean with her parents about everything - her grades, Jonathan, the money, Ysrael. I think students will identify with Mina and with the secrets she keeps from her family as many teens do.
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