The Wangs vs. the world

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Andrew Bayne Memorial Library	Fiction	Fic Chan
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Bethel Park Public Library	Fiction	FIC CHANG Jade
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CLP - Allegheny Regional	Fiction	FICTION Chang
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CLP - Brookline	Fiction	FICTION Chang
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CLP - Lawrenceville	Fiction Collection	FICTION Chang
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CLP - Squirrel Hill	Display	FICTION Chang
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Carnegie Library of Homestead	Fiction	FIC Chan
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Carnegie Library of McKeesport	Fiction	F CHA
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Community Library of Castle Shannon	Fiction	Fic Chang
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Coraopolis Memorial Library	New Books	CHA
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Dormont Public Library	Fiction	F CHAN
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Monroeville Public Library	Fiction	CHANG JADE
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Moon Township Public Library	Fiction	F CHANG Jade
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Mt. Lebanon Public Library	Fiction	CHANG Jade
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Northern Tier Regional Library	Fiction	FIC CHANG
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Northland Public Library	Fiction	FIC CHANG
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Oakmont Carnegie Library	Fiction	CH
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Whitehall Public Library	Fiction Collection	FIC Chang
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Summary

Published Reviews

Booklist Review: "Chang throws the immigrant journey on its head in this offbeat debut. Charles Wang built a hugely successful cosmetics company after coming to the U.S. from China. After some poor business choices, however, multiplied by the bottom dropping out of the economy, he is officially bankrupt. The only thing to do? Round up his family and return to China to claim his ancestral lands. The first stop is his oldest daughter's house in rural New York, prompting a cross-country road trip involving Charles, second-wife Barbra, and his two other children, college-age Andrew (a would-be stand-up comedian) and teenager Grace, who thinks this all might be a joke. It turns out that the Wangs can't function without the trappings of their now-lost lavish lifestyle, a situation that gives the road trip a decidedly wacky bent and infuses the novel with humor. Although the story strains credulity at times, readers with a taste for outsize family dysfunction, à la Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney's The Nest (2016) and Emma Straub's The Vacationers (2014), will whip through this one with smiles on their faces.--Sexton, Kathy Copyright 2016 Booklist"
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Publisher's Weekly Review: "In Chang's sparkling debut novel, a family whose fortune has been lost in the 2008 financial crisis takes a cross-country road trip in an effort to regroup. Bouncy patriarch Charles Wang, who immigrated to Los Angeles from China by way of Taiwan when he was a young man and made a fortune manufacturing makeup, drives his daughter, teenage Grace, an avid fashion blogger, and his son, Andrew, an aspiring stand-up comic, across the country with Barbra, their stepmother. Their destination is a little town in the Catskills, where his oldest daughter, Saina, a conceptual artist who has retired in shame from the New York City art world, lives. The family stops in New Orleans, where virginal Andrew becomes temporarily involved with an older woman, and in Alabama, where Charles attempts to deliver a U-Haul full of custom makeup to a boutique country store. Various small crises, notably Saina's attempt to decide between a sweet new lover and an unreliable older one, keep the plot percolating. Chang's charming and quirky characters and comic observations make the novel a jaunty joy ride to remember. (Oct.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved."
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Additional Information

Subjects	Chinese American families -- Fiction. Immigrant families -- Fiction. Humorous fiction.
Publisher	Boston :2016
Other Titles	Wangs versus the world
Language	English
Description	354 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN	9780544734098 0544734092
Other	Classic View