[3] A paperback edition was published on April 9, 2019 by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers.

[11] The novel debuted at number nine on The New York Times Young Adult Hardcover best-sellers list on April 22, 2018.

[14] Publishers Weekly, in a starred review, praised Choi's "sharp wit and skillful character development".

[15] Kirkus Reviews criticized the novel's character development as well as its "absence of emotional depth or well-crafted prose".

[7] Writing for Entertainment Weekly, David Canfield wrote that the novel "vividly realizes Korean-American culture and explores microaggressions on a sharply recognizable level" and wrote that the young adult "frame doesn't push the more challenging material to the margins, but rather renders it naturalistically potent".