It’s filled with family drama and a complicated shared history that goes even further back than Bảo and Linh realize-showing readers that trauma isn’t something you can leave behind in the old country. A chance encounter brings Bảo and Linh together and before they know what’s happening, they’ve become friends-and soon, more. Those restaurants are located across the street from each other and the families have been at odds with each other for as long as anyone can remember. Read this book-just not when you’re hungryīảo Nguyễn and Linh Mai are both Vietnamese American teens whose families own phở restaurants, but they’re not friends. Here are my top 10 favorite reads from 2021. If you’re having a hard time narrowing things down on what to read next, don’t worry. But we made it! And one more year in the rearview mirror means a lot more books taken off my to-read list (and possibly added to yours). Another year has passed and while 2021 was definitely better than 2020, it was only slightly so.
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