Call Me Cathy (Real Life ): Call Me Cathy

by Margaret Meacham and Megan Meacham

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• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671872729
• ISBN13: 9780671872724
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Simon Pulse
• Length: 149 Pages
• Weight: 0.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.2" x 6.8"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

Tenth Anniversary of a Modern Classic

Like TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, CALL ME CATHY is the only book written by a supertalented female author. Like TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, this haunting novel explores the nature of prejudice and the clannishness of family and race in a USA changing too fast for its characters to adjust in. An-Jing has come over from China all the way to Brooklyn and she takes to it like a duck to water, but she is hampered just like the girls of olden times whose feet were hobbled, hampered by her parents' myopic insistence that she live her life as a "good Chinese girl," one whose eventual marriage to a man picked out by her mother and father will profit both families. Well, An-Jing doesn't like this state of affairs, especially since her little brother can do as he pleases, and her older brother gets caught up in the easy-come, easy-go lifestyle of Brooklyn, where drugs are cheap and the living is on the down-low. Joey is a nice young American boy, but the way An-jing's parents would react if they knew she was dating him, they would die of shame and indignation. Of course this Romeo and Juliet story wouldn't progress very far without a "Nurse," and in this case, we get An-Jing's Americanized aunt, who sympathizes with the young girl who only wants to be called "Cathy" and to be able to date the boy of her dreams. This whole stew is warmed-over Flower Drum Song, but Megan Meacham has a writing style that brings you THIS CLOSE to An-Jing's innermost thoughts, dreams and desires.

Tradition??

An-Ying comes from a strict traditional Chinese family. Problem is, they live in America. While her brother, who is only 11, gets to go out and have fun with his friends, 17 yr old An-Ying is expected to come straight home from school everyday, help her mother with sewing, and be a "good chinese girl". She finally resorts to sneaking around to be with her friends and manages to meet a sweet guy.While she is building a relationship with her new boyfriend, her parents are busy trying to pair her up with a would be husband because "In China, the parents always arrange a girl's marriage for her" Finally she stands up to her parents and makes her mother (her father was a lost cause, lol) realize that they aren't in Hong Kong anymore and she deserves to have a life.Just reading about what the poor girl's parents put her thru made me mad.

GOOD

This book rocked, but really, if you liked it, you will LOVE all her other books!!! Check out the other ones, too!!! The other ones are my favorites, but this one is really good, too!!!

Awesome book

I love this book, and I wish her parents would let her do more things. Joey sounds like a really nice guy and he would never hurt her. She has good friends to ask questions and if there is anything that is bothering her she can always talk to her Aunt.