The Wangs vs. the World - by Jade Chang (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><b>For fans of <i>Crazy Rich Asians</i>: Meet the Wangs, the unforgettable immigrant family whose spectacular fall from glorious riches to (still name-brand) rags brings them together in a way money never could.</b><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><strong>For fans of <em>Crazy Rich Asians</em>: Meet the Wangs, the unforgettable immigrant family whose spectacular fall from glorious riches to (still name-brand) rags brings them together in a way money never could.</strong> <p/> Charles Wang, a brash, lovable businessman who built a cosmetics empire and made a fortune, has just lost everything in the financial crisis. So he rounds up two of his children from schools that he can no longer afford and packs them into the only car that wasn't repossessed. Together with their wealth-addicted stepmother, Barbra, they head on a cross-country journey from their foreclosed Bel-Air home to the Upstate New York retreat of the eldest Wang daughter, Saina. <p/> "Highly entertaining" (<em>BuzzFeed</em>), this "fresh <em>Little Miss Sunshine</em>" (<em>Vanity Fair</em>) is a "compassionate and bright-eyed novel" (<em>New York Times Book Review</em>), an epic family saga, and a new look at what it means to belong in America. "When the Wangs take the world, we all benefit" (<em>USA Today</em>). <p/><strong>A <em>New York Times Book Review </em>Editors' Choice <br> An October 2016 Indie Next Pick <br> A PopSugar Best Book for Fall <br> A <em>BuzzFeed</em> Incredible Book for Fall <br> A <em>Nylon</em> Amazing Book for Fall <br> A <em>Bustle</em> Book for Your Fall <em>TBR</em> List <br> A <em>Millions</em> Most Anticipated Book <br> A <em>Frisky</em> Book to Read for Fall</strong><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><strong><em>New York Times </em>Editors' Choice</strong> <strong>PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction Finalist Winner of the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award Selected as A Best Book of 2016 by: </strong> <strong>NPR - BuzzFeed - PopSugar - Refinery29 - Electric Literature - Self - Elle</strong> "A fresh <em>Little Miss Sunshine</em>." -- <strong>Sloane Crosley, in <em>Vanity Fair</em></strong> "Bright and funny...when the Wangs take the world, we all benefit."--<em><strong>USA Today</strong></em> "Richly entertaining . . . Chang's smart and engaging novel remains defiantly cheerful. Perhaps this is because its ultimate subject, across a colorful span of geographies and cultural settings, is love."<strong>--<em>The Guardian</em></strong> "Jade Chang is unendingly clever in her generous debut novel....As much as THE WANGS VS. THE WORLD is about Asian-American identity, it is also a sprawling family adventure compressed into a road trip novel. The result is a manic, consistently funny book of alternating perspectives as the Wangs make various cross-country stopovers in their 80s station wagon...[A] compassionate and bright-eyed novel." --<strong><em>New York Times Book Review</em> (Editors' Choice)</strong> "Sharply funny."--<em>New York Times</em> "Fresh, energetic, and completely hilarious, <em>The Wangs vs. the World </em>is my favorite debut of the year." -- <strong>Jami Attenberg, author of <em>Saint Mazie</em> and<em> The Middlesteins</em></strong> "A moneyed Chinese-immigrant clan loses it all, then takes a healing, uproarious road trip across the United States." --<strong><em>Entertainment Weekly</em></strong> "With mischievous, Dickensian glee, Chang's prose power-drives the appealingly dysfunctional family, now a disgrace to the wet dream of capitalism, through their postfall paces . . . Chang's confident, broad-stroke, and go-for-broke style makes her fresh twist on the American immigrant saga of the woebegone Wangs one of 2016's must-reads . . . You will laugh your ass off while learning a thing or two about buying into, and then having to bail on, the American dream. But mostly, you'll get to savor, thanks to a wildly innovative plot twist, the I Chang of this diabolical dramedy: how it's love, not money, that really makes the world, and all the people in it, go round."--<em><strong>Elle</strong></em> "It all comes crashing down for Charles Wang, so he and his family hit the road. This endearing debut is more fun than you'd expect from a trip with this backdrop."--<em><strong>Marie Claire</strong></em> "On the brink of financial ruin, Charles Wang has a plan to start over in his homeland of China. But first, he has to reunite the fam via a madcap, cross-country road trip from their palatial Bel Air digs."--<strong><em>Cosmopolitan</em></strong> "a highly entertaining debut novel . . . A meditation on what it means to be an immigrant in America, <em>The Wangs vs. the World</em> shows the often surprising ways hardship can bring a dysfunctional family closer together." <strong>--BuzzFeed</strong> "[Chang's] book is unrelentingly fun, but it's also raw and profane -- a story of fierce pride, fierce anger, and even fiercer love....<em>The Wangs vs. the World</em> drives home the fact that there is no one immigrant experience -- just humanity in all its glorious, sloppy complexity, doing its best to survive and thrive despite the whims of society and circumstance. With plenty of laughs, both bitter and sweet, along the way."<strong>&m<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>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 Community of Writers at Squaw Valley.
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