Bitter Melon by Cara Chow – Two Reviews!

Bitter Melon, by Cara Chow, is about an Asian-American high school student named Fei Ting, or Frances, who has lived her entire life obeying whatever her mother says.  Frances’ mother wants her to become a doctor and go to Berkeley someday.  However, when something goes wrong with her schedule and she is assigned speech instead of calculus,…