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Wang, Weike.
Rental House
[Libby] :
A Novel.
Penguin Publishing Group,
2024.
family.
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HTML:<b>DAKOTA JOHNSON’S TEATIME PICTURES DECEMBER BOOK CLUB PICK <br /> ONE OF NPR’S “BOOKS WE LOVE” 2024<br /> “One of the most nuanced, astute critiques of America now I’ve read in years. And it’s also frequently hilarious.</b>”<br /> <b>—<i>Los Angeles Times</i><br /> “A funny, perceptive look at what it means to defy societal expectations…timeless.” <i><br /> <b>—</b>Washington Post</i><br /> “[For] basically anyone who is breathing, <i>Rental House</i> is a must-read."<br /> <i>—San Francisco Chronicle<br /></i></b><br /> “Sharp, insightful, occasionally heartbreaking, and incredibly relatable.”<br /> <b>—Gabrielle Zevin, author of <i>Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow</i><br /> “For anyone who’s experienced demanding parents, misunderstanding in-laws, a vacation-gone-wrong, or mid-life questions about how to reconcile your own personality liabilities with those of the person you love most.”<br /> —Elif Batuman, author of <i>The Idiot</i></b><br /> From the award-winning author of <i>Chemistry,</i> a sharp-witted, insightful novel about a marriage as seen through the lens of two family vacations<br /> <br /> Keru and Nate are college sweethearts who marry despite their family differences: Keru’s strict, Chinese, immigrant parents demand perfection (“To use a dishwasher is to admit defeat,” says her father), while Nate’s rural, white, working-class family distrusts his intellectual ambitions and his “foreign” wife.<br />  <br /> Some years into their marriage, the couple invites their families on vacation. At a Cape Cod beach house, and later at a luxury Catskills bungalow, Keru, Nate, and their giant sheepdog navigate visits from in-laws and unexpected guests, all while wondering if they have what it takes to answer the big questions: How do you cope when your spouse and your family of origin clash?  How many people (and dogs) make a family? And when the pack starts to disintegrate, what can you do to shepherd everyone back together?<br /> With her “wry, wise, and simply spectacular” style (<i>People</i>) and “hilarious deadpan that recalls Gish Jen and Nora Ephron” (<i>O, The Oprah Magazine),</i> Weike Wang offers a portrait of family that is equally witty, incisive, and tender.
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