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Van Pelt Library PS3623.A4585 R46 2024
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Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Fiction Wang Rental
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wang, Weike, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chinese Americans--Fiction.
- Chinese Americans.
- Interracial marriage--Fiction.
- Interracial marriage.
- Parents-in-law--Fiction.
- Parents-in-law.
- Marriage--Fiction.
- Marriage.
- Social classes--Fiction.
- Social classes.
- Vacations--Fiction.
- Vacations.
- Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Cape Cod (Mass.)--Fiction.
- Cape Cod (Mass.).
- Catskill Mountains (N.Y.)--Fiction.
- Catskill Mountains (N.Y.).
- Genre:
- Romance fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 215 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Riverhead Books, 2024.
- Summary:
- "Keru and Nate first meet in college, brought together by a joke at a Halloween party (would a "great white" costume mean dressing like a shark or a privileged Ivy League student?) and marrying a few years later. Misfits in their own families, they find in each other a feeling of home. Keru is the only child of strict, well-educated Chinese immigrant parents who hold her to impossible standards even as an adult ("To use a dishwasher is to admit defeat," says her father). Nate is from a rural, white, working class family that has never trusted his intellectual ambitions or--now--the citizenship status of his "foreign" wife. Nevertheless, some years into their marriage, Keru and Nate find themselves incorporating their families into two carefully planned vacations. The results are disastrous and revealing. First in a cozy beach house on Cape Cod, and later in a luxury bungalow in the Catskills, the couple is forced to confront the hidden truths at the core of their relationship. Alongside their giant sheepdog Mantou, Keru and Nate navigate visits from in-laws, a sibling, and surprising new friends, all while trying to determine if they have what it takes to make themselves and each other happy. How do you cope when your spouse and your family of origin clash? How many people (and dogs) are needed to make a family? And when the pack starts to disintegrate, what does it take to shepherd everyone back together?"-- Provided by publisher.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Miller Fund bookplate.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Wang, Weike. Rental house
- ISBN:
- 9780593545546
- 0593545540
- OCLC:
- 1416896707
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