Query: Banana Suburb [YA]

[L-live]

After the drawing board.


Ever since Liz was little she has heard it all: she is a waste of music lessons, good isn’t good enough, Chinese people don’t play indie rock. While her classmates hang out at Tucson Mall, Liz practices piano for three hours a day. While other kids go to parties, Liz and her band send demos to record companies. Being Chinese-American, Liz has no choice but to achieve top marks in all subjects if she still wants to “make her terrible adolescent music”, according to her parents. The sweetest revenge is success, but landing a record deal all on her own terms is just so, so hard. I am seriously considering one of the reader's replies, which indicated that there is too much stereotyping in here. Suppose I add something funny?

Change finally comes when Joe Suzuki, once a high school boy next door and now a real estate con artist So now you know why they know each other despite the age difference, comes back with a credit card that never runs out and a handsome sardonic smirk. Liz’s load is lightened as she finds someone to complain to and confide in. Yet, as the year continues, Liz and her family and friends become increasingly polarized as she focuses solely on playing gigs. But it can’t matter now; Liz has already impressed Joe’s A&R friend and she is so close to proving that she is not “a waste of a human being”. However, it isn’t until the eve of Joe’s arrest when Liz sees her two-year ambition with lucidity. What if all she wanted was for someone to help her through the tough times?

Banana Suburb is a multicultural YA novel complete at 88,000 words.

Thank you for your consideration.








Really, at this point I just want to throw a fit on the floor and wail like a baby. LOL. Roar it all out ... Roar it all out.
Thank you, though.