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I was hugely disappointed that this book was written by an Asian American professor. I think the intention was good but the delivery of the message still reinforces white centric view of the world. The white girl is featured first, as round eyes and long lashes being beautiful. Then the main character compares her eyes to the white girl and tells herself she's beautiful too despite not having those features. Sadly, she's validating herself from the gaze of what's beautiful in white standards. If she is truly beautiful on her own merit, why is she talking about the white girl? She then goes onto describing her grandma, mom and sister's eyes that glow like warm tea and shaped like crescent moon, reinforcing the stereotypes of Asians being "foreign" or "exotic". Also, how is that they all have the same eye shape as if Asians all have the same monolithic looking face. Even sharing the same DNA, there has to be some deviation. But they were described in the exactly the same manner all across generation. Again, it's disappointing that this is what the Asian Americans are selling to White folks with all the good intentions to educate their children and at the same time continuing to feed some level of inferiority complex within Asian American community. I am writing to the author as I strongly believe Asian Americans need to be better than this. It is a shame that Asian Americans have been socialized to view themselves with a white centric view of beauty and continue to pass that down.