This Is My Brain in Love

By I.W. Gregorio

Can two teens save a failing restaurant and their unexpected romance?

3.8/5 Goodreads · 2,672 ratings

384 pages· 93,115 words· Est. 8.5 hour read

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Bookroo's summary

Jocelyn Wu's junior year takes a turn when her family's restaurant faces closure. Teaming up with Will Domenici, an aspiring editor, they must modernize the business to save it. As their partnership deepens into romance, family biases and the restaurant's uncertain future threaten to tear them apart. Can they overcome these challenges to secure both their dreams and their budding relationship?

From the publisher

A Schneider Family Book Award winner! A Bank Street Best Book of the Year! Told in dual narrative, This Is My Brain in Love is a stunning YA contemporary romance, exploring mental health, race, and, ultimately self-acceptance, for fans of I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter and Emergency Contact. Jocelyn Wu has just three wishes for her junior year: To make it through without dying of boredom, to direct a short film with her BFF Priya Venkatram, and to get at least two months into the year without being compared to or confused with Peggy Chang, the only other Chinese girl in her grade. Will Domenici has two goals: to find a paying summer internship, and to prove he has what it takes to become an editor on his school paper. Then Jocelyn’s father tells her their family restaurant may be going under, and all wishes are off. Because her dad has the marketing skills of a dumpling, it’s up to Jocelyn and her unlikely new employee, Will, to bring A-Plus Chinese Garden into the 21st century (or, at least, to Facebook). What starts off as a rocky partnership soon grows into something more. But family prejudices and the uncertain future of A-Plus threaten to keep Will and Jocelyn apart. It will take everything they have and more, to save the family restaurant and their budding romance.

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