Not quite a banana. (Asian on the outside but white on the inside), and not quite an egg (a white kid who gets off on all things Asian), half-and-half Patty Ho has never felt completely at home in her skin. Life at House Ho is tough enough between her ultra-strict Taiwanese mom (epic-length lectures and all) and her Harvard-bound big brother. But things get worse when a Chinese fortune-teller channels Patty's future via her belly button...and divines a white guy on her romance horizon. Faster than Patty can add two plus two, her mom freaks out and ships her off to math camp at Stanford. Just as Patty writes off her summer of woe, life starts glimmering with all kinds of probabilities. -From Flap Cover

Justina Chen Headley, has done it again with a hilarious, yet meaningful novel about finding your inner self and still loving yourself on the way. We meet Patty Ho, who doesn't seem to fit into her skin. She looks Asian, but feels White. That's what she really wants to be, but with a very strict mother and white father, she is feels she doesn't get into her Asian culture. We follow her big adventure through fortune tellers over her belly button and throughout math camp in Standford, this book is for anyone who doesn't fit in or is not in the norm.

This book, while I feel is very meaningful and serious, makes a great comedy. I recommend this book to any fan of teen literature, Asian novels, and a person who is a huge Justina fan, this book will keep them on the edge of their seat. They will laugh, smile, frown, maybe even cry or get mad. Either way, I guarntee you will love this book. IT's truly one of the best teen books I have read.