This is a young adult book by Justina Chen Headley. I wouldn't put it on the must-read list, but it is an interesting, fun read, with some emotion thrown in there.
Girl Overboard is about a teen girl in an obscenely wealthy, Chinese-American family as she tries to find her own way in life without depending on her father's name. Syrah deals with a lot of issues--I just began typing out all the things she's confronting in this book and finally deleted the list because it's too long. She resolves a lot of problems with her family and ends up making an impact through snowboarding in a way that's all her own.
I didn't like the excessive use of capitalization on words just to give them extra meaning. Some parts of the book were a little too cutesy-wootsy. It's not going onto my list of young adult books that are truly great for all ages, but it would be a good teen book.
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