Title: Bitter melon
Description: Frances, a Chinese-American student in a competitive school in San Francisco in the 1980s, begins to question her mother's insistence that she becomes a doctor when she accidentally enrolls in a speech class and discovers a hidden talent.

Frances, a Chinese American student in a competitive school in San Francisco in the 1980s, begins to question her mother's insistence that she become a doctor when she accidentally enrolls in a speech class and discovers a hidden talent.
Subjects: Child abuse, Chinese Americans, Juvenile fiction, Fiction, High schools, Schools, Mothers and daughters, Self-actualization (Psychology), History, School stories, Mother-daughter relationship, Self-realization, Young adult fiction, Children's fiction, Family, fiction, Asian americans, fiction, Mothers and daughters, fiction, Child abuse, fiction, Schools, fiction, Chinese americans, fiction, San francisco (calif.), fiction
Places: San Francisco (Calif.)
Time periods: 20th century