The book dives straight in, and you’ll find yourself getting happily lost in the Gilmore-esque fast-paced dialogue of the Wangs and their financial trauma. Follow her on Twitter keep up with upcoming books. She’s talented and poignant to a T, and the novel reflects that. Houston Memorial scholarship from the Squaw Valley Community of Writers.
Chang has been the recipient of a Sundance Fellowship for Arts Journalism, the AIGA/Winterhouse Award for Design Criticism, and the James D. The book follows the flawed patriarch, Charles Wang, and his journey from China to California, and then, bankrupt and ashamed, to upstate New York to live with his oldest daughter.Īlthough the novel is Chang’s literature debut, she isn’t new to writing. There’s family drama, affairs, love, sex, money, a cross-country road trip. The Wangs vs The World is an all-encompassing novel. But unless you’re part of some modern-day Addams Family, it’s probably not that relatable. Reading about a murderous, or vengeful, or incestuous family can make you feel a lot better about your own. Along with romance, it seems that the family drama is one of the more popular fiction topics. Pride and Prejudice, Flowers in the Attic, and One Hundred Years of Solitude are all beautiful novels, and all feature a dysfunctional family. Writing about familial connections isn’t a new phenomenon either.
These lines that connect us, these people we have no choice but to be close with, in some way or another–they mean something. It seems to be part of what makes us human, in a way. Most of my friends can attest to the fact that I’ve complained about my family’s antics more than once–and so have they, about their own families. Having a crazy family isn’t exactly a new phenomenon. the World is Jade Chang’s debut work, and is a dazzling glimpse into Chinese-American family life, and the struggles of achieving that allusive American dream.
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