{"id":48700,"date":"2021-10-18T11:12:13","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T15:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=48700"},"modified":"2021-10-08T10:14:12","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T14:14:12","slug":"win-me-something-by-kyle-lucia-wu-in-booklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/win-me-something-by-kyle-lucia-wu-in-booklist\/","title":{"rendered":"Win Me Something by Kyle Lucia Wu [in Booklist]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-48689\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/10\/Win-Me-Something-Kyle-Lucia-Wu-518x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"518\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/10\/Win-Me-Something-Kyle-Lucia-Wu-518x800.jpg 518w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/10\/Win-Me-Something-Kyle-Lucia-Wu.jpg 663w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 518px) 100vw, 518px\" \/>With a Chinese immigrant father and a white mother, Willa Chen examines her new adulthood as an untethered millennial. \u201cIf you\u2019re undercared for, but essentially fine, what do you do with all that hurt, the kind that runs through your tendons and tugs on your muscles, but doesn\u2019t show up on your skin?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her parents divorced early and moved on to new families, leaving Willa to shuttle in-between, never fitting into either. At 24, she\u2019s become the nanny to 9-year-old Bijou, the precocious only child of wealthy white parents, a family so different from her disjointed own. Living in their Tribeca floor-through apartment, Willa quickly adapts to a privileged-adjacent lifestyle but remains well aware that she\u2019s an outsider; racist microaggressions never quite cease.<\/p>\n<p>Debuting novelist Kyle Lucia Wu, already recognized with fellowships, residencies, and teaching appointments, crafts impressive, insightful prose: \u201cI didn\u2019t hate him. I didn\u2019t know I could,\u201d \u201cmy senses are covered in tulle, dramatic and scratchy,\u201d \u201cShe was still unfinished \u2013 new enough to be kind.\u201d Though of interest, her novel doesn\u2019t quite reach the same lofty level, ultimately proving more self-indulgent than self-aware.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/Win-Me-Something-\/pid=9750193\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">&#8220;Fiction,&#8221; <em>Booklist<\/em>, October 1, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a Chinese immigrant father and a white mother, Willa Chen examines her new adulthood as an untethered millennial. \u201cIf you\u2019re undercared for, but essentially fine, what do you do with all that hurt, the kind that runs through your tendons and tugs on your&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,197,38,6535],"tags":[6608,6668,58,10,51,9967,145,129,39,9966],"class_list":["post-48700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-fiction","category-hapa","category-korean-american","category-repost","tag-bookdragon","tag-booklist","tag-coming-of-age","tag-family","tag-identity","tag-kyle-lucia-wu","tag-mixed-race-issues","tag-mother-daughter-relationship","tag-parent-child-relationship","tag-win-me-something"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - 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