NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER тАв READ WITH JENNAтАЩS MAY BOOK CLUB PICK тАв From the award-winning author of Goodbye, Vitamin: How far would you go to shape your own destiny?┬аAn exhilarating novel of American identity that spans three generations in one family and asks: What makes us who we are? And how inevitable are our futures?┬а
"Mesmerizing"тАФBrit Bennett тАв "A page turner.тАЭтАФHa Jin тАв тАЬGorgeous, heartfelt, soaring, philosophical and deft"тАФAndrew Sean Greer тАв "Traverses time with verve and feeling."тАФRaven Leilani
Real Americans begins┬аon the precipice of Y2K in New York City, when twenty-two-year-old Lily Chen, an unpaid intern at a slick media company, meets Matthew. Matthew is everything Lily is not: easygoing and effortlessly attractive, a native East Coaster, and, most notably, heir to a vast pharmaceutical empire. Lily couldn't be more different: flat-broke, raised in Tampa, the only child of scientists who fled MaoтАЩs Cultural Revolution. Despite all this, Lily and Matthew fall in love.
In 2021, fifteen-year-old Nick Chen has never felt like he belonged on the isolated Washington island where he lives with his single mother, Lily.┬аHe can't shake the sense she's hiding something. When Nick sets out to find his biological father, the journey threatens to raise more questions than it provides answers.
In immersive, moving prose, Rachel Khong weaves a profound tale of class and striving, race and visibility, and family and inheritanceтАФa story of trust, forgiveness, and finally coming home.
Exuberant and explosive, Real Americans is a social novel par excellence that asks:┬аAre we destined, or made? And if we are made, who gets to do the making? Can our genetic past be overcome?
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