White Ivy: A Read with Jenna Pick

By Susie Yang

Book Overview

***LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION'S FIRST NOVEL PRIZE*** A dazzling debut novel about a young woman's dark obsession with her privileged classmate and the lengths she'll go to win his... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1982100605
• ISBN13: 9781982100605
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: Scribner Book Company
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

4 stars

WHITE IVY by Susie Yang This hit a little too close to home for me. Ivy Lin wants to be normal teenager in Boston while trying (and failing) to please her Chinese immigrant family. Their interactions were eerily similar to mine. The emotional and verbal abuse echoed the very same things I heard as a teenager. If you’ve dealt with something similar, I’d suggest reading with caution. Despite that, I found this dark and twisty psychological thriller to be “unputdownable”. Themes of classism, race, identity, and the immigrant experience are woven together seamlessly. Even the slower pace wasn’t a detriment to the overall story, at least for me. Ivy is unlikable and clueless. However, the author writes her in a way that makes you think twice about passing judgment for her self-serving, manipulative and conniving ways. Even her mother and grandmother’s motivations for treating Ivy so terribly is (somewhat) understandable once you learn their backstories. While the foreshadowing was heavy handed, and I was able to easily guess the twist and outcome, I still found myself turning the pages, wanting to see how it all played out. Rating: 4/5 ⭐️