Really excellent, highly readable memoir of the the author, Laura Gao is a Chinese-American immigrant whose early childhood was spent with her grandparents in Wuhan before joining her parents in America. Her formative years were spent moving regularly before the family settled in a small Texas town where Laura struggled to fit in and be as white as possible. Her eventual transition to college and early years of employment begins Laura's efforts to better identify with her cultural heritage as well as come out. The memoir is book ended by rising tides of anti-Asian sentiment and violence as COVID-19 begins to spread across the globe. The narrative is equal parts touching and funny, with lots of playful allusions to video games.