The Wangs Vs. The World
Books | Fiction / Literary
3.2
Jade Chang
For fans of Crazy Rich Asians: 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. 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. “Highly entertaining” (BuzzFeed), this “fresh Little Miss Sunshine” (Vanity Fair) is a “compassionate and bright-eyed novel” (New York Times Book Review), 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” (USA Today).A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice An October 2016 Indie Next Pick A PopSugar Best Book for Fall A BuzzFeed Incredible Book for Fall A Nylon Amazing Book for Fall A Bustle Book for Your Fall TBR List A Millions Most Anticipated Book A Frisky Book to Read for Fall
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Author
Jade Chang
Pages
384
Publisher
HarperCollins
Published Date
2016-10-04
ISBN
0544734203 9780544734203
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"For all the buzz this book had, it was really a disappointment. I expected it to be humorous, and it did have moments of brilliance, but the characters were way too annoying to really enjoy it, especially Charles. I did like it and I don't regret reading it, hence the 3 stars, but since my expectations were so high, I have to say that this book is way overrated."
"This is a weird way to start a review, but I can understand why people didn't like this book. I know this because I loved it for those very reasons. One of the biggest complaints I've read is that the author adds in a lot of Chinese but doesn't translate it for the reader. I totally get why that's annoying; the reader has the right to know what's going on. But the difficult thing to explain is that the Chinese is necessary. I was a Chinese minor in college, which means I barely scraped the surface of the Chinese language, but the one thing I learned is that there is just no translating the essence of Chinese. And this book, at the heart of it, is Chinese. It appealed to me in so many ways but mostly because it was unique. There are no stories like this out there, but there needs to be"
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Allie Peduto
"Loved it, both dramatic and comical."
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Cesilia Heredia
"Had its moments, interesting story of how the American Dream of immigrants can become a little too American."
Liz Thurman
