Elizabeth Zhang's is a Chinese-American student, originally from Dakota but studying at Columbia in New York City. Her ultimate dream is to be admitted to Harvard Law School. But after applying she gets a rejection letter which more or less tells her she is not outstanding enough, her dream is shattered. When she finds out that her classmate Laura Kim is accepted at Harvard, she truly wonders why. Is she just a boring Asian female and Laura isn't? Why was Laura accepted and why wasn't she? Apparently Laura has taken the spot that was Elizabeth's
Elizabeth tries to find out everything about Laura, to find out why she was accepted. She starts following her, to figure out what she does on a daily basis; what are her hobbies, where does she shops and what does she eat for lunch? But slowly her following of Laura turns into an obsession and even sabotaging her online with online smearing and stealing Laura's identity online, and constantly comparing herself to Laura, which takes her mental health on a turn downwards. Slowly on, things run out of control which leads into a horrible confrontation with Laura, who is found dead in her dorm room shortly after. Was it her fault this happened? And if things are not complicated enough, Elizabeth also found out that she is expecting a baby unexpectedly..
Boring Asian Female by Canwen Xu is a novel that is anything but boring. The story truly grips you as a reader from the first page to the last and it is a storyline that is different then anything I have read in years, it is just very original and this also counts for the main character of Elizabeth. She starts of as a normal girl but slowly on, her character gets darker and darker in character. Her obsession with Laura and Harvard truly starts slowy and gets more and more bizarre and out of control, and she truly does some far fetched things to stalk and sabotage Laura. I found it a fast paced, entertaining rollercoaster of a novel about how far an envious person can go to get what she wants . I truly enjoyed reading Boring Asian Female!
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