3.5
Wait for Me
By An NaPublisher Description
A teen pretends to be a perfect daughter, but her reality is far darker, in this penetrating look at identity and finding yourself amidst parents’ dreams for you, by Printz Award–winning novelist An Na.
Mina seems like the perfect daughter. Straight A student. Bound for Harvard. Helps out at her family’s dry cleaning store. Takes care of her hearing-impaired little sister. She is her parents’ pride and joy. From the outside, Mina is doing everything right. On the inside, Mina knows the truth. Her perfect-daughter life is a lie. And it isn’t until she meets someone to whom she cannot lie that she’s willing to consider what the truth might mean, and what it will cost. Because Ysrael, the young migrant worker who dreams of becoming a musician and who comes to work for her family, asks Mina the one question that scares her the most: What does she actually want?
Mina seems like the perfect daughter. Straight A student. Bound for Harvard. Helps out at her family’s dry cleaning store. Takes care of her hearing-impaired little sister. She is her parents’ pride and joy. From the outside, Mina is doing everything right. On the inside, Mina knows the truth. Her perfect-daughter life is a lie. And it isn’t until she meets someone to whom she cannot lie that she’s willing to consider what the truth might mean, and what it will cost. Because Ysrael, the young migrant worker who dreams of becoming a musician and who comes to work for her family, asks Mina the one question that scares her the most: What does she actually want?
Download the free Fable app
Stay organized
Keep track of what you’re reading, what you’ve finished, and what’s next.
Build a better TBR
Swipe, skip, and save with our smart list-building tool
Rate and review
Share your take with other readers with half stars, emojis, and tags
Curate your feed
Meet readers like you in the Fable For You feed, designed to build bookish communitiesStay organized
Keep track of what you’re reading, what you’ve finished, and what’s next.Build a better TBR
Swipe, skip, and save with our smart list-building toolRate and review
Share your take with other readers with half stars, emojis, and tagsCurate your feed
Meet readers like you in the Fable For You feed, designed to build bookish communities12 Reviews
3.5
Lavender Bunny 🐇
Created about 2 months agoShare
Report
Characters change and growLikable charactersMulti-layered charactersBeautifully writtenDescriptive writingEasy to readAddictiveFast-pacedHeartbreaking
Ceci
Created about 2 years agoShare
Report
Hailey Detterich
Created over 3 years agoShare
Report
“It was just ok, I wasn’t wowed by or connected to any of the characters in this story. Everyone annoyed me at at least one point except for Ysrael and Suna had such short chapters that only felt relevant once or twice which is sad because I was honestly more interested in her story than Mina’s. Her character wasn’t explored as thoroughly as it could’ve been...same with Mina but Suna was more noticeable.
It felt like there was a lot going on for such a short book and none of it was given the time to expand and really make the important parts feel substantial. There was not a lot of payoff in this book and I was ready to see something happen with the ending but it just fell flat. I just closed the book and went “...ok...and?” There was also little to no resolution and you don’t know how most of the important plot points resolve in the end because it’s not addressed to its full conclusion.
There were a few good moments but overall this one was a flop for me.”
Nana
Created over 5 years agoShare
Report
“Short and simple, in the best way. I found myself relating to Mina's story, not because I lied to my family in order to live up to their expectations, but because I too have had to make the painful and paralyzing choice between pleasing my parents and living my own life according to what I wanted. It's a choice that often has to be made more than once.
The writing was good, and there was lots of beautiful imagery. I'm not sure, however, that we needed to hear parts of the narrative from Suna's perspective. She was an important character, of course, but I'm not sure it added much for us to be inside her head. Her perspective was unique, though.”
Frida
Created over 10 years agoShare
Report
About An Na
An Na was born in Korea and grew up in San Diego, California. A former middle school English and history teacher, she is the critically acclaimed author of The Fold, Wait for Me, the National Book Award finalist and Printz Award–winning novel A Step from Heaven, and The Place Between Breaths. She lives in Vermont.
Start a Book Club
Start a public or private book club with this book on the Fable app today!FAQ
Do I have to buy the ebook to participate in a book club?
Why can’t I buy the ebook on the app?
How is Fable’s reader different from Kindle?
Do you sell physical books too?
Are book clubs free to join on Fable?
How do I start a book club with this book on Fable?
Save to a list
0
/30
0
/100
Private List