num_pages: 320
description: Seventeen-year-old Ali Chu knows that as the only Asian person at her school in middle-of-nowhere Indiana she must be bland as white toast to survive. This means swapping her congee lunch for PB&amp;Js ignoring the clueless racism from her classmates and teachers and keeping her mouth shut when people wrongly call her Allie instead of her actual name Ah-lee after the mountain in Taiwan.Her autopilot existence is disrupted when she finds out that Chase Yu the new kid in school is also Taiwanese. Despite some initial resistance due to the they belong together whispers Ali and Chase soon spark a chemistry rooted in competitive martial arts joking in two languages and most importantly pushing back against the discrimination they face.But when Alis mom finds out about the relationship she forces Ali to end it. As Ali covertly digs into the why behind her mothers disapproval she uncovers secrets about her family and Chase that force her to question everything she thought she knew about life love and her unknowable future.
language: English
title: Our Wayward Fate
publisher: Simon  Schuster Books for Young Readers