Lee’s novel offers wisdom drawn both from Chinese traditions and beliefs and from the experience of a young person facing challenges she could never have imagined. Mercy, too, learns that she cannot pursue success for herself alone – wherever she is, she is part of a community and owes much to that community. Outrun the Moon shows how people of different backgrounds can come together in a crisis, through the efforts of unlikely or underappreciated leaders. Despite the blows of personal tragedy, bossy-cheeked Mercy rises to the challenge, bringing former adversaries along with her. Her problems with her classmates and the director give way to a struggle for survival. Mercy is a very good liar – a source of much humor at the beginning of her time at the school – but her ruse is about to be exposed when the earthquake hits. Clare’s does not admit local Chinese girls. She has to lie about who she is, telling them she’s an heiress from China, because St. Most of the white girls at the school – save for a friendly Texan and a working-class Italian girl who dreams of running her family’s restaurant – don’t accept her. The boy she’s had her eye on, Tom Gunn, son of the traditional Chinese doctor, thinks she doesn’t care enough about him, and he decamps for Seattle.
She does get into the exclusive girls’ boarding school, but it’s a mixed blessing. Clare’s Academy, and dragging Jack across town to meet with the vain wife of a board member shows that she will stop at nothing to get what she wants. Having aged out of the Chinatown school, Mercy dreams of attending St. Mercy doesn’t want to spend her life working in her father’s laundry, nor does she want her sickly younger brother, Jack, anyway near the laundry. Lee’s protagonist, 15-year-old Mercy Wong, stands out in her Chinese family and community for her “bossy cheeks,” the physical manifestation of her boundless ambition and independence. As Stacey Lee shows in her gripping YA novel Outrun the Moon, this event brought a diverse but ethnically segregated city together as it tested the skills and leadership of residents young and old. history was the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, which killed more than 3000 people and destroyed four-fifths of the city. While it seems like the hurricanes, tornadoes, and heat waves are getting more potent and the 500 year floods seem to be happening every five or ten years, earlier generations experienced terrible disasters with fewer resources to respond to them. All these are natural disasters that can either tear communities apart or bring them together.
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