What's Eating Jackie Oh? (2024)by Patricia Park

What's Eating Jackie Oh? (2024)by Patricia Park

A Korean American teen tries to balance her dream to become a chef with the cultural expectations of her family when she enters the competitive world of a TV cooking show. A hilarious and heartfelt YA novel from the award-winning author of Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim and Re Jane.

"Park¡¯s novel delivers authentic characters who will make you laugh¡­and cry. Not to be missed!" --Ellen Oh, author of The Colliding Worlds of Mina Lee

Jackie Oh is done being your model minority.

She¡¯s tired of perfect GPAs, PSATs, SATs, all of it. Jackie longs to become a professional chef. But her Korean American parents are Ivy League corporate workaholics who would never understand her dream. Just ask her brother, Justin, who hasn¡¯t heard from them since he was sent to Rikers Island.

Jackie works at her grandparents¡¯ Midtown Manhattan deli after school and practices French cooking techniques at night¡ªwhen she should be studying. But the kitchen¡¯s the only place Jackie is free from all the stresses eating at her¡ªschool, family, and the increasing violence targeting the Asian community.

Then the most unexpected thing happens: Jackie becomes a teen contestant on her favorite cooking show, Burn Off! Soon Jackie is thrown headfirst into a cutthroat TV world filled with showboating child actors, snarky judges, and gimmicky ¡°gotcha!¡± challenges.

All Jackie wants to do is cook her way. But what is her way? In a novel that will make you laugh and cry, Jackie proves who she is both on and off the plate.

Patricia Park's hilarious and stunning What¡¯s Eating Jackie Oh? explores the delicate balance of identity, ambition, and the cultural expectations to perform.

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