"I Hate My Mother!"

Imagine three women in a family and take away what is most dear to all three of them. This first novel by Perpi Tiongson explores the dynamics of a young woman's emotions as she tries to juggle the requirements of school, the emptiness of loss and the contradictions of a teenager's life. It captures the confusion that attends a young person as she tries to assert her own identity in the face of her responsibilities as daughter, sister and student. And find out how the laws of magnetic attraction shed light on a grain of rice, a school crush and the challenge of a mother one despairs of ever understanding.