Patti's parents want only the best for their daughter so they have raised her under the pressure of being perfect. In her senior year of high school, Patti spends all her time studying, doing practice SAT tests, and practicing her violin all to get her SAT score up to 2300 and earn admission into Harvard/Yale/Princeton. The pressure to be a "Perfect Korean Daughter" is getting to her and she starts to rebel...in very small ways. She develops a friendship with a new boy, and fellow musician at her school who teaches her about popular music and jams with her without her parents' knowledge. Her Korean-American church friends, who are similarly pressured, help her to sneak off to a concert with her friend. Her ultimate rebellion (if you can really call it that) is applying and auditioning for Juilliard behind her parents' back even though she knows they don't want her to make music her career choice. Of course, Patti gets caught in her deceptions and a confrontation with her parents is inevitable. This debut book by a Korean-American author is very well done and accurately shows the pressures many high school students have placed on them.
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