"In 1980s New York, half-Chinese, half-Jewish Alma, whose life is a series of halfways, uses her Walkman to get through the challenges thrown her way until she is ready to press play on the soundtrack of her life"--

Working almost constantly to help out at her father's restaurant and care for her siblings, a teen from a migrant Asian family starts dating a delivery boy before her mother's progressing mental illness upends everything she understood about her family.

"A romance about teens who devote themselves to granting other people's wishes, but are too afraid to let themselves have their own hearts' desires--each other"--

In the year following their son's death, May Chen's parents face racist accusations of putting too much pressure on their son and causing his death by suicide, and May attempts to challenge the racism and ugly stereotypes through her writing, only to realize that she still has a lot to learn and that her actions have consequences for her family as well as herself.

"A lyrical and magical novel about two teens who fall in love despite their families being caught in a bitter rivalry"-- "Hunter Yee has perfect aim with a bow and arrow, but all else in his life veers wrong. He's sick of being haunted by his family's past mistakes. The only things keeping him from running away are his little brother, a supernatural wind, and the bewitching girl at his new high school. Luna Chang dreads the future. Graduation looms...