The Wangs vs. the World
Novel by Jade Chang
Originally published: 2016
Author: Jade Chang
Genres: Novel, Humor, Humorous Fiction, and more
Pages: 354 (1st hardback edition)
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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 ...
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Read 2339 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. A hilarious debut novel about a wealthy but fractured Chinese immigrant family that had …
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The Wangs vs. the World is the debut comic novel by Jade Chang, published in 2016. The novel chronicles the cross-country road trip of Chinese/Taiwanese ...
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Oct 14, 2016 · 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 ...
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The Wangs vs. the World is an outrageously funny tale about a wealthy Chinese-American family that “loses it all, then takes a healing, uproarious road trip ...
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Homeless, penniless, yet still fiercely proud, Charles sets out to reunite his children and reclaim the ancestral land of the Wangs from the Chinese Communists.
Nov 18, 2016 · Comedy mingles with compassion as a bankrupt businessman takes a road trip across the US and rediscovers his Chinese roots.
"Jade Chang's debut novel is a heartbreaking, hilarious, and honest American epic: a road trip that's an ultimate escape from our parents' American dream, ...
Oct 27, 2016 · “The people of the world could be divided into two groups: those who used all of their chances, and those who stood still through opportunity ...
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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 ...