{"id":143318,"date":"2020-11-19T10:00:34","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T15:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=143318"},"modified":"2020-11-16T14:05:14","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T19:05:14","slug":"fran-reviews-white-ivy-susie-yang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=143318","title":{"rendered":"Fran Reviews: White Ivy &#8211; Susie Yang"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-143319\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/White-Ivy-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/White-Ivy-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/White-Ivy.jpg 397w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/>What a delightful surprise this novel was! The reader goes from feeling sorry for Ivy to castigating her for her choices.\u00a0Through the many plot twists and turns, this hard to put down novel will have the reader guessing and making their own choice on how to perceive the main character.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">About <a href=\"http:\/\/danvers.noblenet.org\/eg\/opac\/record\/4663535?locg=11\"><strong>White Ivy<\/strong><\/a>:<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;Ivy Lin is a thief and a liar\u2014but you\u2019d never know it by looking at her.<\/p>\n<p>Raised outside of Boston, Ivy\u2019s immigrant grandmother relies on Ivy\u2019s mild appearance for cover as she teaches her granddaughter how to pilfer items from yard sales and second-hand shops. Thieving allows Ivy to accumulate the trappings of a suburban teen\u2014and, most importantly, to attract the attention of Gideon Speyer, the golden boy of a wealthy political family. But when Ivy\u2019s mother discovers her trespasses, punishment is swift and Ivy is sent to China, and her dream instantly evaporates.<\/p>\n<p>Years later, Ivy has grown into a poised yet restless young woman, haunted by her conflicting feelings about her upbringing and her family. Back in Boston, when Ivy bumps into Sylvia Speyer, Gideon\u2019s sister, a reconnection with Gideon seems not only inevitable\u2014it feels like fate.<\/p>\n<p>Slowly, Ivy sinks her claws into Gideon and the entire Speyer clan by attending fancy dinners, and weekend getaways to the cape. But just as Ivy is about to have everything she\u2019s ever wanted, a ghost from her past resurfaces, threatening the nearly perfect life she\u2019s worked so hard to build.<\/p>\n<p>Filled with surprising twists and a nuanced exploration of class and race, <i>White Ivy<\/i> is a glimpse into the dark side of a woman who yearns for success at any cost.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a delightful surprise this novel was! The reader goes from feeling sorry for Ivy to castigating her for her choices.\u00a0Through the many plot twists and turns, this hard to put down novel will have the reader guessing and making their own choice on how to perceive the main character. About White Ivy: &#8220;Ivy Lin&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":143319,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiction","category-staff-review"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/White-Ivy.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6V6sR-BhA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143320,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143318\/revisions\/143320"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/143319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}