Friday, March 19, 2021

White Ivy by Susie Yang




This was a compelling and disturbing book about a young woman with lots of problems!  From USA Today:

"Ivy Lin was a thief but you would never know it to look at her," the book begins. Little do readers know, settling in to read, that Ivy Lin is many other things she doesn't appear to be.

The question of how far one a person will go to get what she wants is explored in many novels. But how far Ivy will go is another question altogether, as is what she's willing to lose along the way, giving the book the feel of a thriller, but not in the classic sense. It keeps readers on their toes the entire way. 

Since the main character is Asian I was disturbed because of all the recent discrimination against Asians; reading a book about an evil Asian woman was disconcerting at this time.  Her problems do stem from her feeling of not being "trendy, preppy and American" however.  

There are lots of twists and turns in the book. It was certainly a page-turner and good psychological study of a young woman trying to attain happines.


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