Dim Sum of All Things

This book was cute, and funny, too....there were quite a few incidences that made me laugh. The one in particular was when Lindsey had gotten drunk and in the process of finding a bathroom, she fell so hard that she pooped her pants. Honestly, i don't know what I'd do in that situation, and now a days, I dont think anyone is so kind as to strip you of your poopy clothes and bathe you. The book was good, but I felt like it lacked something, it totally covered the Asian-American identity issue and how Lindsey came to discover who she really was after her trip to China. The book introduced Michael Cartier as a person she started seeing and coincidentally was half Chinese, and asked Lindsey to teach him what it meant to be Chinese. The book introduces issues about him and the conflicts between he and Lindsey, but it never goes into detail about how the conflicts are resolved. OK i get it, the books main character is Lindsey, but HEY! why introduce a character with such "juicy conflict potential" if your not going to follow through!!! It seems as though Michaels struggle to learn to be Chinese and Lindsey trying to help him is a whole other can of worms that the book opened and never continued with. I was eager to find out how Lindsey helps him discover his Asian American self and how their conflicts are resolved when she points out to Michael that "Slant Eye" is a hurtful and derrogatory term! This whole part that the book introduces is missing! Bottom line- the book was good, but way too short.