Her mother fits the Asian-American stereotype of the “Tiger Mom:” a righteous, unrelenting woman who holds her daughter up as a kind of blueprint for excellence. She gets straight A’s in school, plays the flute in the band, has a gang of rather nerdy friends, and when she finishes her classes, she comes home to help her parents run the temple they dedicate to their ancestors. She is a model only child in a family of Chinese origin. Mei Mei is 13 years old and lives in Toronto in 2002. Cameron Diaz, after retiring from movies: ‘The last thing I think about on a daily basis is what I look like’ĭirector Domee Shi and co-writer Julia Cho have come up with an apt metaphor to describe the discombobulating experience of becoming a teenager and the accompanying changes that happen to one’s body.
