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From WB Easy Chicago, I'm Greta Johnson, and this is the Nerd at Book Club.

This month's selection is Suzy Yang's White Ivy, and Suzy is our guest today.

If you haven't read the book yet, don't worry. This discussion is totally spoiler free.

We will have a super spoilery panel chat later this month.

The book is it's a page turner. It's about Ivy Lynn, who's the daughter of Chinese immigrants.

And as a kid, she kind of falls for her classmate, Gideon Spire,

who's sort of like the ultimate New England wasp golden child.

And essentially her obsession just never really ends. And as a result,

Ivy can be really ruthless in her attempts to kind of fit into some of the more gilded corners of American society.

Suzy, welcome to Nerd at.

Thanks for having me Greta.

So I really loved the review that was written in the Washington Post about White Ivy,

partly because it placed this in the genre of books about high society and social climbing,

like the Great Gatsby or talented Mr. Ripley or the House of Murth.

White Ivy, I think does really set itself apart because you know,

you're framing this story around a young Chinese woman, Chinese American woman.

And I wonder like, how do you feel about that lineage? Were those books that you were kind of hoping

that White Ivy might be in conversation with as you wrote it?

Yeah, absolutely. I mean, when I was writing it, I was sort of just writing it,

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