White ivy a novel
(Large Print)

Subtitle from cover.

[Regular print version previously published by: Simon & Schuster, Inc.]

Ivy Lin, a Chinese immigrant, grows up in a low-income apartment complex in Massachusetts desperate to assimilate with her American peers. She develops a crush on the golden boy Gideon Speyer, whose patrician New England family is the paragon of the WASP ideal. Ivy's mother is a Tiger Mom, berating Ivy regularly when she disapproves of her grades, her looks, her attitude. Ivy's grandmother Meifeng, her mentor, teaches Ivy to shoplift to get the things she needs for a typical suburban teenage life. She develops a taste for winning and for wealth. But when her mother discovers what she has been doing, the punishment is swift-- Ivy is sent back to China. Years later, back in Boston, Ivy reconnects with Gideon, and slowly, she sinks her claws into him and the entire Speyer clan, until a ghost from her past resurfaces and threatens the nearly perfect live she's worked so hard to build.