White Ivy

Ivy Lin is a thief and a liar - but you'd never know it by looking at her.

White Ivy begins as many coming-to-America stories do: Ivy Lin, a Chinese immigrant, grows up in a low-income apartment complex in Massachusetts. She develops a crush on the golden boy Gideon Speyer, whose family is the paragon of the WASP ideal. Ivy's mother is a Tiger Mon, berating Ivy regularly when she disapproves of her grades, her looks, her attitude. But Ivy has a mentor - her grandmother Meifeng, from whom she learns to shoplift to get the things she needs.

Years later, when she bumps into Gideon Speyer's sister, Ive believes it's destiny. She's worked hard to be the right woman for Gideon. Just as they begin dating, another man from Ivy's past appears, and he has his own set of rules. Ivy soon has a foot in two vastly different worlds. The question is: which will she choose?