- Fiction, Humorous, Coming of Age, Family Life
"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.
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Contemporary, classical in form, comic and relentless.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- effortlessdemanding
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About the book
- Author
- Jade Chang
- First published
- 2016
- Pages
- 368
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc. and Blackstone Publishing, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781328745538
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First sentence
“Charles Wang was mad at America.”
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