American Panda Audiobook (Free)

“Weepingly funny.” —The Wall structure Street Journal

“Wonderful.” —Buzzfeed

“Charmed my socks away.” —David Arnold, New York Times bestselling author of Children of Appetite and Mosquitoland

Four starred reviews for this incisive, laugh-out-loud contemporary debut about a Taiwanese-American teen whose parents want her to be always a doctor and marry a Taiwanese Ivy Leaguer despite her squeamishness with bacteria and crush on the Japanese classmate.

At seventeen, Mei ought to be in senior high school, but skipping fourth about American Panda grade was section of her parents’ expert plan. Now a freshman at MIT, she actually is on the right track to fulfill the remainder of this predetermined potential: turn into a doctor, marry a preapproved Taiwanese Ivy Leaguer, produce a litter of babies.

With everything her parents have sacrificed to create her cushy life a reality, Mei can’t bring herself to tell them the truth—that she (1) hates germs, (2) falls asleep in biology lectures, and (3) includes a crush on her classmate Darren Takahashi, who is decidedly not Taiwanese.

However when Mei reconnects with her brother, Xing, who is estranged through the family for dating the wrong female, Mei starts to question if all of the secrets are truly worthwhile. Can she find a way to become herself, whoever that is, before her internet of is situated unravels?

From debut author Gloria Chao comes a hilarious, heartfelt tale of how, unlike the panda, life isn’t always so black and white.