Gracia, Anna

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Boys I know

June Chu has resigned herself to being the "just good enough" girl--just good enough to get third place trophies and secret kisses from Rhys, her AP Bio partner, but not good enough to live up to the achievements of her seeming perfect older sister or her strict mother's expectations. Refusing to try too hard to get a full-ride scholarship, knowing she will fail anyway, June sets all her energy on getting Rhys to officially say they are in a relationship. Her plans go very wrong, and instead June flings herself into a new relationship, where the lines between love and sex are blurred and the pressure to plan out her future threatens to explode.

The misdirection of fault lines

Three Asian American teen girls look for direction in their lives as they compete against each other at an elite tennis tournament.
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Boys I know

2022
June Chu is the 'just good enough' girl. Good enough to line the shelves with a slew of third-place trophies and steal secret kisses from her AP Bio partner, Rhys. But not good enough to meet literally any of her Taiwanese mother's unrelenting expectations or to get Rhys to commit to anything beyond a well-timed joke. While June's mother insists she follow in her (perfect) sister's footsteps and get a (full-ride) violin scholarship to Northwestern (to study pre-med), June doesn't see the point in trying too hard if she's destined to fall short anyway. Instead, she focuses her efforts on making her relationship with Rhys 'official.' But after her methodically planned, tipsily executed scheme explodes on the level of a nuclear disaster, she flings herself into a new relationship with a guy who's not allergic to the word.
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