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Copyright © 2015 by Jia Jiang
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Harmony Books, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.
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ISBN 9780804141383
eBook ISBN 9780804141390
Cover design by Gabriel Levine
Cover art: Vadim Georgiev/Shutterstock (watercolor); DeCe/Shutterstock (umbrella)
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To Grandma:
as a lifelong teacher, you taught me something that’s more valuable than anything I’ve learned in school: being a good person.
I miss you so much.
And
To Uncle Brian:
thank you for being my second father in my life.
Your support and mentorship mean the world to me.
CONTENTS
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
PROLOGUE
CHAPTER 1   MEETING REJECTION
CHAPTER 2   FIGHTING REJECTION
CHAPTER 3   TASTING FAME
CHAPTER 4   BATTLING EVOLUTION
CHAPTER 5   RETHINKING REJECTION
CHAPTER 6   TAKING A NO
CHAPTER 7   POSITIONING FOR YES
CHAPTER 8   GIVING A NO
CHAPTER 9   FINDING UPSIDE
CHAPTER 10 FINDING MEANING
CHAPTER 11 FINDING FREEDOM
CHAPTER 12 FINDING POWER
CHAPTER 13 LIVING A NEW MISSION
APPENDIX     THE REJECTION TOOLBOX
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
About the Author
PROLOGUE
November 18, 2012. It was an unusually hot afternoon in Austin, Texas—but that’s not why I was sweating. I was driving my dusty RAV4 slowly through a random middleclass suburb in the northwest part of town, looking for a door to knock on. I’d already passed hundreds of front doors, willing myself to pick one. But given what I was about to do, every house looked terrifying.
“OK, stop being a coward,” I muttered to myself, parking in front of a one-story, redbrick house with a nice garden. Poking out of the flower bed was a small, decorative cross. I hoped the cross signaled that a peaceful, churchgoing family lived there, not a KKK member. Either way, I hoped they wouldn’t turn violent on a Sunday afternoon.
As I got out of the car, I wondered whether anyone was peering through their drapes at the unexpected sight before them: a grown man wearing shin guards and cleats, holding a soccer ball in one hand and video-recording himself with an iPhone held in the other. “Well, this one is a little bit risky,” I said to my phone. “I am going to ask someone to open up their backyard for me to play soccer in it. We’ll see what happens.”
As I walke ............

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