Prologue
Sometimes I wish I could escape from everything. I don’t want to be the eldest of a Chinese family, where one parent is reasonable and the other is quick to anger, a younger sister who has been ghettofied by her friends and fashion, and one who is too American to be Chinese and too Chinese to be American (that would be me). My father, the reasonable one, and I have been given a job that we both don’t want and that is to hold the family together. The ghetto sister of mine has threatened to tear this family apart with her ways (mostly because the ways don’t fit into the conservative Chinese culture). My mom has tried to kill herself with a knife because I broke a dish while washing them. My father and I just click because of our minds and level-headedness. My mother and sister clash because of their similar personality. I want to get away from the pressure that they put on me. They say, “We’re counting on you. You’re our only hope. You have to go to college. You have to make us look more superior than your cousins, aunts, and uncles in your grandparents eyes.” You see, there’s a big contest to see who has the best kids. I’m known as the slow to anger reasonable bookworm/computer nerd. With my somewhat reasonable grades in their eyes (to you guys it would be mostly A’s and one or two B’s with honor and AP classes), English and Chinese translation skills that I use to type up contracts for my dad’s business, and piano skills that I “wonderfully display” (which I’m forced to take by the way), I somewhat hold up my family. My sister somehow still helps us right along. The only thing is that we’re still at the lowest rung on the ladder. I just want to go away from everyone, my family and my so-called friends.
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