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Wait for Me: A Novel by An Na [in Christian Science Monitor]

Wait for MeThis one will break your heart in the most haunting way. The follow-up to An Na’s Michael L. Printz Award-winning A Step From Heaven, is just as powerful – perhaps even more so – as her debut.

Mina is the perfect daughter for her overbearing Korean immigrant mother: she has her mother convinced that she is Harvard-bound, the National Honor Society president-to-be, just on the cusp of escaping through success to a much easier life away the family laundry. But enough is enough and Mina’s lying façade is cracked beyond repair and her thoughts of escape are anything but perfect.

Reviews: “In Celebration of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, some new and notable books,” Christian Science Monitor

TBR‘s Contributing Editors’ Favorite Reads of 2006: These Are a Few of My Favorite Things … in Print, That Is …,” The Bloomsbury Review, November/December 2006

Tidbit: An Na was a delightful guest for the Smithsonian’s Korean American Centennial Commemoration‘s fall program, “Children’s Books,” on September 13, 2003.

Readers: Middle School, Young Adult

Published: 2006

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