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So at the last minute, I rushed from work to my apartment and threw on my high school prom dress—the one I'd worn the night I'd been crowned Potomac Valley High's first-ever Asian American prom queen. (Oh my! Mrs. Saltzstein, the guidance counselor, had gushed. She'd heard of Oriental valedictorians before, but never a Chinese prom queen!) The dress was a strapless pink taffeta number. The zipper took some coaxing, and I was mushrooming a little out the top, but damn if I didn't still look pretty good in that thing. This was an interesting story about discrimination from the point of view of Ingrid Yung, a Chinese American corporate lawyer trying to make partner at a Manhattan law firm. Also - the AMAZING friendship with Perdie and Lucille. I loved their love for each other truly. Everyone needs a friendship like that in their lives. To compensate, Ingrid gamely plays in the softball league, schmoozes in the corporate cafeteria, and puts in the billable hours—until a horrifically offensive performance at the law firm’s annual summer outing throws the carefully constructed image way out of equilibrium.Scrambling to do damage control, Parsons Valentine announces a new “Diversity Initiative” and commands a reluctant Ingrid to spearhead the effort, taking her priority away from the enormous deal that was to be the final step in securing partnership. For the first time, Ingrid finds herself at odds with her colleagues—including her handsome, golden-boy boyfriend—in a clash of class, race, and sexual politics. My office was on the thirty-first floor, along with those of the other senior M&A associates. Hunter's office was the first I passed on my way from the elevator bank. HUNTER F. RUSSELL , read the polished brass nameplate. Next to Hunter was Murph, and next to Murph was a seventh-year named Todd Ames, who'd had his name legally changed from Abramowicz while still in law school. For ease of spelling, I'd once heard him explain.

Wan has written a sensitive story of discrimination faced in ‘old boy' law firms in particular but also in the world in general...intriguing and entertaining. This reviewer is looking to Wan's next novel.” — Library Journal This is the type of book every individual should read. It shows real-world, everyday experiences of a minority (especially a minority woman) in America in an accessible way: through a story in which you're genuinely rooting for the main character and, at least for me, identifying with the experiences Wan writes.was informed the dog on the cover dies near the end of the book as part of plot contrivance. No thank you. I went in thinking that this book was going to be a semi spicy office romance (again thank you Netflix), but got a powerful realistic few on what it’s like being a minority in a white collar male driven industry. There are some nice moments between characters, some good bits of banter, and if you’re in it for the smut, it’s got good smut. I had never wanted to belong to anything more than to that shimmering landscape of office towers lit up against the dark New York sky.

Nolan Gerard Funk as Dan Fallon, a fellow lawyer at Parsons Valentine & Hunt who is trying to make partner The FMC- Perdie is MESSY AF. She's self centered but determined. She blows people off but also cares deeply. Think Naomi from YDEO but slightly worse. The phone on her desk rang. Margo glanced at it and signaled to me that it was my line. I leaned one hip against the ledge in front of her desk and waited, rifling through my mail. Alexandra Turshen as Rachel Friedman, Ingrid's best friend who also works as a litigation attorney at Parsons Valentine & HuntCome in, come in, Ingrid." He came around the side of his desk, gesturing with his bifocals toward his couch. He was not a tall man, but he had heft. "Please sit." The death of Bananas the Pug. It’s not that I think animals can’t die in romances. Beloved pets die and that can be a part of a character’s emotional arc. However, in this book it just felt kind of pointless. Raw top 10s via FlixPatrol can also help us understand how well the show performs. We can see from the heatmap above that the show is performing best in the United States, Canada, the Nordic regions, and Eastern Europe. Ingrid, the perfect Asian-American senior associate protagonist, makes a lot of questionable drank-the-Kool-Aid choices, and the story is flawed and predictable. There's fraternizing, yelling, sabotage, burned bridges, mentions of Above the Law (tee hee), poaching, eleventh-hour heroics and revenge. But despite the melodrama, I kept having visceral reactions - reading about this specific brand of law firm hell even in a fictionalized, dramatic form literally made my heart pound. In particular, there's a really sad scene where Ingrid thinks of all the war stories traded by her minority lawyer friends, and what her choice to be a perfectly palatable minority says about her. I damn near cried at several points (and also at the part near the end when her mom says simply, "I just wanted you to be happy"). I looked over at Hunter. He was hunched over a piece of paper, scribbling on some sort of cryptic sketch that looked like a tree.