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on the first draft. She is a vice principal at a high school. Ho said, "Ultimately, this isn’t just a story about physical appearances, but a story of how appearances are passed down and what they can represent: family, history, culture, relationships, love." The book's editor
Clarissa Wong said that she wished she had the book when she was a child and that she did not accept her eyes until she was in her early 20s. Wong said that the book is for every audience with what it means to be beautiful and that "it was one of the books I acquired the quickest, from it hitting my inbox to bringing it to acquisition and making an offer". Ho previously received a rejection every so often while her agent advised Ho to continue her positivity. A sequel titled
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