Angela S. Choi - Hello Kitty Must Die

ON THE OUTSIDE , twenty-eight-year-old Fiona Yu appears to be just another Hello Kittyan educated, well-mannered Asian-American woman. Secretly, she feels torn between the traditional Chinese values of her family and the social mores of being an American girl.

To escape the burden of carrying her familys honor, Fiona decides to take her own virginity. In the process, she makes a surprising discovery that reunites her with a long-lost friend, Sean Killroy. Sean introduces her to a dark world of excitement, danger, cunning and cruelty, pushing her to the limits of her own morality. But Fionas father throws her new life into disarray when he dupes her into an overnight trip which results in a hasty engagement to Don Koo, the spoiled son of a wealthy chef.

Determined to thwart her parents plan to marry her off into Asian suburbia, Fiona seeks her freedom at any price. How far will she go to bury the Hello Kity stereotype forever? Fionas journey of self-discovery is biting and clever as she embraces her true nature and creates her own version of the American Dream, eliminatingwithout fear of remorseanyone who stands in her way.

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Smells Like Teen Spirit

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To Mom, Dad, Meatball, St. Jude

I would like to thank the wonderful people who made this project possible:

Robert Ressler, my creative writing coach, for guiding me through my transition to the writing life

John Kithas, for employing me while I wrote this book

Lynda, for telling me to just start this book already

Adrian Weber, my friend, personal editor, and reader, for helping me come up with a kickass title, editing my first draft, and cheering me on

Marie Mockett for guiding me through the querying/ publication process

Andrea Somberg for giving me suggestions to polish the novel

Josh Getzler, my fabulous agent, for going above and beyond the call of duty to sell this novel

Alison Janssen, for being a brilliant editor

Ben Leroy, for buying this novel in the first place

Mom Dad for putting me here on this planet

Meatball, my fat parakeet, for being an inspiration

St. Jude, for prayers answered

Dick Cheney for being Dick Cheney

I T ALL STARTED with my missing hymen.

One week before my twenty-eighth birthday, I decided to take my own virginity with a silicone dildo coated in two-percent Lidocaine gel.

Silicone dildos are the best. Firm, smooth, easy to clean, and most importantly, you can boil them in water. We Chinese folks love to boil things. Our chopsticks, our teacups, our pots and pans, and especially our drinking water. Nothing goes inside our bodies without being boiled in water first.

Silicone dildos are also the ideal choice for people who have allergies.

I have a lot of allergies. That and I didnt quite fancy the idea of asking some emergency room doctor to pick glass shards out of my vagina. And as the saleswoman said, glass dildos would be less than ideal for my present intentions.

I selected a purple medium-sized dildo with a flared base for easy grip. As it was not attached to a male body, I figured I would need to have a firm handle on it. Not that it would have gone anywhere except out the way it went in, but still.

And like everything else, it was Made in China. A fact my parents would surely appreciate. They like everything made in the home country.

I named my dildo Mr. Happy. I thought it would be an appropriate name for something that would have the privilege of destroying my familys honor, which I had upheld dutifully between my legs for nearly three decades.

The existence of that untouched membrane sent every American boy running, especially when I told them that we couldnt have sex until we got married. As no one wanted to marry me by the third date, my insistence of keeping my hymen intact put a huge damper on my dating life. Had my parents and I stayed in Hong Kong, it would have been less of a problem. Traditional Chinese people frown upon premarital sex.