the heterosexual romance plot dominates the Asian American young adult novels currently available. But within this trend an even more curious theme emerges: that of the heterosexual love triangle involving an Asian American girl, a white (Euroamerican) boy, and an Asian American boy; in the end, the Asian American girl usually chooses the white boy. I wondered what the female protagonist's choice of love interest signified rhetorically here, given the realities of race and romance in Asian American history. This is not an insignificant query, as the interracial romance, a seemingly innocuous plot device, correlates with a divisive Asian American community issue: statistically speaking, there is a very high incidence of Asian American women marrying white men. The trend itself has been fodder for many studies about Asian American women's "outmarriage" to white men as representative of Asian American women's internalized racism, fueling Asian American community anxiety about the continuing "emasculation" of Asian American men and the "hypersexualization" and "exoticization" of Asian American women. (315)