LitPick Review
Do you think you have pressures from your parents to get good grades, good SAT scores, and go to a good college? Patti Yoon would kill to be you. She can't even look at guys without getting in trouble. Sorry Cute Trumpet Guy. Good is simply not good enough. Assistant choirmaster violinist? That means your second in the state, not first. A B plus on an advance calculus test? Too low. Anything that brings down your GPA so your not valedictorian is NOT ACCEPTABLE. 2010 on the SATs will not get you into HARVARDYALEPRINCETON. And not only do she have pressure from her parents, but she also has pressure from her entire church! Still think you have it bad?
Opinion:
By far the best book I have ever read. Paula Yoo perfectly captures the pressures put on us by parents, and how stressed we get from school and hormones and The Popular Kids. But what our parents think is best for us doesn't necessarily mean it is what makes us happy. It's so refreshing to find an author that understands that and is able to put it into her writing so the rest of the world understands it to. Paula Yoo gets a perfect score on this awesome summer read, Good Enough.
