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3.0

I came for family where agreement was more important than most anything else. I excelled at piano, violin, viola, tennis, math and science...in essence, the perfect Chinese kid. But I'm American. And I have years of therapy bills to show that this form of parenting is awful.

The main thing I hated about the book were the stereotypes. Over and over again we were told the chinese way of doing things was the best...end of story. No room for anything else. It was annoying and repetitive.

I liked how it was almost a coming of age story for the mom. I only wished that there had been a doctor visit for a clearly diagnosed case of OCD.