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A teen pretends to be a perfect daughter, but her reality is far darker, in this penetrating look at identity and finding yourself amidst parentsโ dreams for you, by Printz Awardโwinning novelist An Na.Mina seems like the perfect daughter. Straight A student. Bound for Harvard. Helps out at her familyโs dry cleaning store. Takes care of her hearing-impaired little sister. She is her parentsโ pride and joy. From the outside, Mina is doing everything right. On the inside, Mina knows the truth. Her perfect-daughter life is a lie. And it isnโt until she meets someone to whom she cannot lie that sheโs willing to consider what the truth might mean, and what it will cost. Because Ysrael, the young migrant worker who dreams of becoming a musician and who comes to work for her family, asks Mina the one question that scares her the What does she actually want? ISBN:9781481442435