A Chinese-American grad student has a bit of a breakdown and smashes a bunch of beakers in the lab. She is put on "medical" leave and her live-in boyfriend tries to get her life back together. Of course there are issues. Realizing she has no good reference point for what love is. Her parents were not good examples as husband and wife nor as parents. She finally discovers something about love when she adopts and dog and then more when her best friend has a baby and she becomes devoted. This may be the worst summary I've added to this blog because the book is about so much more. I absolutely loved the way Wang takes us through the doubt that plagues our grad student. What does she want? How will she figure it out? You even learn a little chemistry. Wonderful debut.
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