Aspirations, written by Cynthia Cheng, was published this year. It's about a 22 year old Katie who is a recent graduate of an unnamed college and has moved back home. She is a grad student with a weird mom who is dressing like someone Katie's age. Some of her friends are in trouble. Her best friend, Melanie, is pregnant and not married. Another friend, Elizabeth is trying to understand why her immigrant parents, who are pretty liberal, want her to be more traditional. Then, there are the boy issues. When Katie was in high school, a boy named Tom (isn't this interesting? KATIE AND TOM???!!!!! Nothing to do with the REAL TomKat, of course) was really interested in her. At that time, he was kind of on the nerdy side (and that's just being polite) and extremely ugly. She even publicly turned him down for the prom! But not anymore. Over college, Tom transformed into a handsome young man. He still likes her, but will she like him??