![]() ![]() Like many Chinese families, the Wangs lost their ancestral land in the communist takeover, but Charles is determined to get it back. Once he fires their live-in maid, he takes back the car he gave her and drives the family across the country to live with his oldest daughter (a disgraced conceptual artist) in the Catskills. His son (a wannabe stand-up comic) will have to leave college and his daughter (a precocious fashion blogger) must withdraw from private school. ![]() Here, an immigrant businessman named Charles Wang has lost his cosmetics empire, his house, and his cars. The financial crisis of the last decade is turning out to be a gold mine for American writers, one which includes a rich comic vein. A Chinese-American family tumbles from riches to rags in Chang’s jam-packed, high-energy debut. ![]()
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