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First Love Language

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Wait time: About 6 weeks
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Wait time: About 6 weeks
For fans of Frankly in Love and Tokyo Ever After comes a romantic dramedy about finding love and reconnecting with your culture in the most surprising ways.
Taiwanese American Catie Carlson has never fit in with her white family. As much as she loves her stepmom and stepsister, she yearns to understand more about her culture and find her biological mother. 
So Catie is shocked when an opportunity comes knocking on her door: Her summer spa coworker, Toby, says he’ll teach her Mandarin. In exchange, she needs to teach him how to date so he can finally work up the courage to ask out his crush. The only problem is that Catie doesn’t actually have any dating experience. But she can fake it.
With her late father’s copy of The Five Love Languages and all his annotated notes, Catie becomes the perfect dating coach. Or so she thinks. As she gets dangerously close to Toby and to finding out what really happened to her biological mom, she realizes that learning the language of love might be tougher than she thought.
Stefany Valentine’s debut novel is both a fresh, fun romance as well as a profound, luminous story about grief, family, transracial adoption, and what it means to truly follow your heart.
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    • Publisher's Weekly

      October 14, 2024
      A white and Taiwanese American adoptee reconnects with her roots and experiences first love in Valentine’s romantic and profound debut. Seventeen-year-old Catie Carlson doesn’t remember much about her biological mother. Following her parents’ separation when Catie was five, she and her white father moved to the U.S.; the traumatic situation is made worse when her dad dies of cancer. Now living with her white stepfamily, Catie yearns to know more about her Taiwanese heritage. But living in Mormon Utah presents its challenges—microaggressions and stereotypes surrounding
      her ancestry abound—until she meets 19-year-old Korean and “Blackanese” Toby. Though the teens’ first encounter is messy, it proves beneficial for them both: in exchange for Mandarin lessons from Toby, Catie will teach him how to date so he can ask his crush out. As Catie’s Mandarin improves—and as she begins reconnecting with her mother—she finds herself increasingly drawn to Toby. Humorous moments of joy and connection—facilitated by the love interests’ shared cultural appreciation and deepening attraction, as well as Catie’s desire to broaden her understanding of her personal history—deftly buoy sensitively rendered depictions of heavy topics surrounding grief and transracial adoption. Ages 12–up.

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