Seeing Emily

Readers will instantly relate to the heady, messy experience of being a teenager in this poignant novel in free verse, which Publishers Weekly called highly visual and eloquently wrought and Kirkus called finely crafted. Emily, a Chinese American teen, is determined to reinvent herself outside the mold in which her family and friends have always viewed her. Her interest in a sexy new student propels her to try out different versions of herself. In the end her art may provide the key to understanding who she is.