My book club read this book and when I passed the cover in an airport I knew I just had to read it. When my girlfriend found it on sale it put it on my list.

Okay this is a do not pass up book, the reading is light goes quickly but the story is deep. I can't help but think of my very first real crush I had in the seventh grade, it my first attempt at understanding the very adult feeling I was having towards Tony. The funny thing is I can't tell you my husbands birthday but I can still remember the shirt Tony had on when he gave me my first kiss. Henry learns not only what it means to accept someone for who they are and love them despite all odds, he gives up speaking to his family and dishonoring his father to stand up for what he knows is right as an American. I can't think of a time period more confusing this one for a young chinese boy born in America. He learns what it means to be American from a young Japanese girl and also looses his heart in the process. This book has so many hidden chinese proverbs that will touch your heart and give you hope in that first love. If nothing else it took me back to a time in my own life that was bitter sweet.