{"product_id":"real-americans-rachel-khong-9781804945360","title":"Real Americans (Rachel Khong)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e** THE INSTANT \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER **\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Insightful and heartfelt' \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eGLAMOUR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Easy to inhale' \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eGUARDIAN\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Mesmerizing\u003cb\u003e' BRIT BENNETT, author of \u003ci\u003eTHE VANISHING HALF\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e***\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNew York City, 1999.\u003c\/b\u003e Lily Chen is an unpaid intern, pursuing the American Dream, when she falls for a young financier - and the life of luxury his vast fortune promises. Everything she wants seems to finally be within reach. But deep down, she knows that her ambitious scientist mother, Mei, imagined so much more for her when she fled the unspoken horrors of Mao's cultural revolution.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwenty years later, Lily is a single parent, estranged from her own family and increasingly isolated from her teenage son, Nick. Desperate to break free from their life on a remote island in Washington State, Nick strives to live better than the generation before him, unable to understand his mother's choices. But when he looks into the past and is unexpectedly confronted by the ghosts of his grandmother's young life in 1960s China, he risks unsettling a legacy of family secrets - passed on from mother, to daughter, to son.    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFollowing three generations of one Chinese American family, REAL AMERICANS is a mesmerising, multilayered family drama which explores the choices we make for ourselves, and for our children. Spanning decades and continents, it is a soaring, heartfelt story about fate, fortune, and what it means to belong. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e***\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Traverses time with verve and feeling'\u003cb\u003e RAVEN LEILANI, author of \u003ci\u003eLUSTER\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'An eye-opener, imaginative and exhilarating' \u003cb\u003eHA JIN, author of \u003ci\u003eWAITING\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Gorgeous, heartfelt, soaring, philosophical and deft' \u003cb\u003eANDREW SEAN GREER, author of \u003ci\u003eLESS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eRachel Khong\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eGoodbye, Vitamin, \u003c\/i\u003ewinner of the California Book Award for First Fiction. \u003ci\u003eReal Americans, \u003c\/i\u003eher second novel, was a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestseller. In 2018, Khong founded The Ruby, a work and event space for women and nonbinary writers and artists in San Francisco's Mission District. With friends, she teaches creative writing as The Dream Side. She lives in Los Angeles.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), B-format paperback, Englisch, 416 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65757219062109,"sku":"K097911542","price":10.8,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/9791154200001A.jpg?v=1788194972","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/real-americans-rachel-khong-9781804945360","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}