Wow. This was an amazing, amazing, amazing book. It made me think in new ways about culture and growing up and change. It introduced me to race in America through foreign eyes. I listened to it on audio book, which allowed me to enjoy it without tripping over foreign names, but I am now looking forward to getting the book in print and reading it again because there was SO much about race I wanted to savor, and savoring is hard when you're in the car while listening to it. It was just amazing. So real, so raw, so honest. It pulled no punches, and the characters were anything but Mary-Sue-esque. They were multi-faceted and flawed and beautiful. Love was constructed, deconstructed, dissected, put back together again. Mental health was examined from an outside perspective. Culture was talked about on every page. Amazing. Amazing, amazing, amazing.