Grace Nguyen is the perfect Asian—perfect grades, perfect scores, perfect everything. She learns that none of that means jack shit when it comes to getting into her dream school. But she’ll do anything to make her dreams come true.
Grace is a raw, unflinching novel that refuses to be simple—it’s disturbing and darkly funny, tragic and cathartic, all at once. It’s a coming-of-age story about love, resilience, and rupture that traces the psychological arc of an ambitious young woman you’ll never forget.
It isn’t a comfortable read, but it is a haunting one. The characters are trapped in their desires, no one is morally clean, and the narrator is not standing above the mess. What’s left is an unease that follows the reader beyond the final page.