So many of Willa's experience throughout the novel felt like they were chosen from my life. I can't describe how seen I felt in this book. When Willa accepts a job to be a nanny for a wealthy family in New York, she finds herself lost and not belonging in a world where she is neither and outsider nor a participant in their glamorous world. As a half-Chinese and half-White girl, Willa Chen has always felt out of place. Win Me Something is an adult literary debut by Kyle Lucia Wu. But this book did an absolutely fantastic job at describing what the biracial experience is. When I first saw the description, I was instantly hooked just because I don't often see myself in media. It was uncomfortable for me reading this novel because of just how much I relate to the main character and her experiences. This book hit a little too close to home. As a half-Chinese and half-White girl, Willa Chen has always felt ou 4 STARS Self-examining and fraught with the emotions of a family who fails and loves in equal measure, Win Me Something is a nuanced coming-of-age debut about the irreparable fissures between people, and a young woman who asks what it really means to belong, and how she might begin to define her own life.Ĥ STARS This book hit a little too close to home.
As she draws closer to the family and eventually moves in with them, Willa finds herself questioning who she is, and revisiting a childhood where she never felt fully at home. But when she begins working for the Adriens-a wealthy white family in Tribeca-as a nanny for their daughter, Bijou, Willa is confronted with all of the things she never had. After her parents’ early divorce, they both remarried and started new families, and Willa grew up feeling outside of their new lives, too.įor years, Willa does her best to stifle her feelings of loneliness, drifting through high school and then college as she tries to quiet the unease inside her. Growing up as a biracial Chinese American girl in New Jersey, Willa felt both hypervisible and unseen, too Asian to fit in at her mostly white school, and too white to speak to the few Asian kids around. After her parents’ early divorce, they both remarried and started new families, and Willa grew up feeling outside of their new lives, to Willa Chen has never quite fit in.
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