Tina Cane

After years as the only Chinese student at her private school, adopted eighth grader Emily transfers to a public school in Chinatown, feels more out of place than ever, and finds herself in Emily Dickinson's poetry when a family secret shakes her.

In 1980s Manhattan, half-Chinese, half-Jewish Alma rides her bike, listens to her Walkman and tries to make sense of her parents' fights and her own growing up.