Oh, I love Zen Cho's work so much. This is on my list of books to order as soon as the mail seems reliable...
writing about people who have all the quirks and foibles and irritating habits of real people but are still people you like and care about.
Oh yeah, excellent description. I also love everything she does with Malaysian-English (managing to make it both authentic to a native speaker, or so I'm told, and understandable to people not from the region, as well as just plain delightful).