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MARC 21

The bride test
Tag	Description
020	$a9781760876029
082	$aAFR HOA
100	$aHoang, Helen,$eauthor.
245	$aThe bride test
246	$aBride test :$ba novel
260	$a2019
300	$ax, 300 pages ;$c24 cm.
500	$aIncludes author's note.
520	$aKhai Diep has no feelings. Well, he feels irritation when people move his things or contentment when ledgers balance down to the penny, but not big, important emotions--like grief. And love. He thinks he's defective. His family knows better--that his autism means he just processes emotions differently. When he steadfastly avoids relationships, his mother takes matters into her own hands and returns to Vietnam to find him the perfect bride. As a mixed-race girl living in the slums of Ho Chi Minh City, Esme Tran has always felt out of place. When the opportunity arises to come to America and meet a potential husband, she can't turn it down, thinking this could be the break her family needs. Seducing Khai, however, doesn't go as planned. Esme's lessons in love seem to be working...but only on herself. She is hopelessly smitten with a man who is convinced he can never return her affection. With Esme's time in the United States dwindling, Khai is forced to understand he has been wrong all along. And there is more than one way to love.
650	$aMan-woman relationships$vFiction.
650	$aMail order brides
650	$aArranged marriage
650	$aRacially mixed women
650	$aAutism
650	$aVietnamese Americans
655	$aRomance fiction.