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When eighteen-year-old Ever Wongs parents send her from Ohio to Taiwan to study Mandarin for the summer she finds herself thrust among the very over-achieving kids her parents have always wanted her to be including Rick Woo the Yale-bound prodigy profiled in the Chinese newspapers since they were nine—and her parents yardstick for her never-measuring-up life.UnbeknownWhen eighteen-year-old Ever Wongs parents send her from Ohio to Taiwan to study Mandarin for the summer she finds herself thrust among the very over-achieving kids her parents have always wanted her to be including Rick Woo the Yale-bound prodigy profiled in the Chinese newspapers since they were nine—and her parents yardstick for her never-measuring-up life.Unbeknownst to her parents however the program is actually an infamous teen meet-market nicknamed Loveboat where the kids are more into clubbing than calligraphy and drinking snake-blood sake than touring sacred shrines.Free for the first time Ever sets out to break all her parents uber-strict rules—but how far can she go before she breaks her own heart?(less)