Born with a port-wine stain birthmark covering her entire right cheek, Terra Rose Cooper is ready to leave her stifling, small Washington town where everyone knows her for her face. With her critical, reproachful father and an obese mother who turns to food to deflect her fathers verbal attacks, home life for Terra isnt so […]
“Getting her fortune told by a Taiwanese belly-button grandmother (who feels up her navel) instead of attending the spring dance is just one of the joys of being Patty Ho, a covertly snarky hapa (half Asian, half white) struggling with her dual heritage. Pattys domineering mother is determined to make her a good Taiwanese girl. […]