Kyle Lucia Wu wrote Win Me Something, a coming of age novel about a girl named Willa. Willa's parents divorced before she was old enough to remember them living together. Both her parents remarried and had more children. Her father was of Chinese descent and her mother had blond hair and blue eyes. Growing up in New Jersey, she felt invisible because she was too white to fit in with the Asian kids and not white enough to fit in with the white kids. At age 24 Willa takes a job as a nanny for a wealthy family in the Tribeca area of New York City. As she takes care of Bijou, a 9 year old girl, she compares her family to the one she is working for. The more time she spends with this family, the more invisible she believes she is. This was a sad and introspective story about Willa.
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