Bitter melon /
Cara Chow.
- New York : Egmont USA, 2011.
- 309 p. ; 22 cm.
With the encouragement of one of her teachers, a Chinese American high school senior asserts herself against her demanding, old-school mother and carves out an identity for herself in late 1980s San Francisco.
Mothers and daughters--Fiction. Self-actualization (Psychology)--Fiction. Child abuse--Fiction. High schools--Fiction. Schools--Fiction. Chinese Americans--Fiction.
San Francisco (Calif.)--History--20th century--Fiction.