It's one of Enertainment Weekly's most anticipated titles of 2016, a Barnes and Noble's Discover Pick and one of Library Journal's "Five Big Debuts" for Fall of 2016. I love that it's being described as a crazy family road trip with a memorable cast of characters. It sounds like the perfect book to curl up with this fall!
ABOUT THE BOOK:
"A hilarious debut novel about a wealthy but fractured Chinese immigrant family that had it all, only to lose every last cent—and about the road trip they take across America that binds them back together. Charles Wang is mad at America. A brash, lovable immigrant businessman who built a cosmetics empire and made a fortune, he’s just been ruined by the financial crisis. Now all Charles wants is to get his kids safely stowed away so that he can go to China and attempt to reclaim his family’s ancestral lands—and his pride. Charles pulls Andrew, his aspiring comedian son, and Grace, his style-obsessed daughter, out of schools he can no longer afford. Together with their stepmother, Barbra, they embark on a cross-country road trip from their foreclosed Bel-Air home to the upstate New York hideout of the eldest daughter, disgraced art world it-girl Saina. But with his son waylaid by a temptress in New Orleans, his wife ready to defect for a set of 1,000-thread-count sheets, and an epic smash-up in North Carolina, Charles may have to choose between the old world and the new, between keeping his family intact and finally fulfilling his dream of starting anew in China. Outrageously funny and full of charm, The Wangs vs. the World is an entirely fresh look at what it means to belong in America—and how going from glorious riches to (still name-brand) rags brings one family together in a way money never could."
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
JADE CHANG has covered arts and culture as a journalist and editor. She is the recipient of a Sundance Fellowship for Arts Journalism, the AIGA/Winterhouse Award for Design Criticism, and the James D. Houston Memorial scholarship from the Squaw Valley Community of Writers.
Thanks to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, I am giving away one copy of The Wangs vs The World to one lucky US reader. The deadline is November 13th and please refer to my giveaway rules.
To learn more about The Wangs vs the World, check out the official site.
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Happy Friday,
Thank you for the chance to win. I have been so back and forth with this with where to put it on my TBR.
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