TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hoang,Helen
TI  - The bride test
SN  - 9781760876029
U1  - 813.6 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Crows Nest, NSW
PB  - Allen & Uniwin
KW  - Man-woman relationships
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Mail order brides
KW  - Vietnamese Americans
KW  - Arranged marriage
KW  - fast
KW  - Autism
KW  - Racially mixed women
KW  - Bookclub collection
KW  - San Jose (Calif.)
KW  - California
KW  - San Jose
KW  - Romance fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - gsafd
N1  - Includes author's note
N2  - Khai 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
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