Esme's lessons in love seem to be working.but only on herself. Seducing Khai, however, doesn't go as planned. When the opportunity to marry an American arises, she leaps at it, thinking that it could be the break her family needs. As a mixed-race girl living in the slums of Ho Chi Minh City, Esme Tran has always felt out of place. So his mother, driven to desperation, takes matters into her own hands and returns to Vietnam to find him the perfect mail-order bride.
Rather than believing he processes emotions differently due to being autistic, he concludes that he's defective and decides to avoid romantic relationships. Well, he feels irritation when people move his things or contentment when ledgers balance down to the penny, but he doesn't experience big, important emotions like love and grief.
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