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3.5 stars
At the heart of The Wangs vs The World is a desperate man. Charles Wang has lost everything, and now he has to tell his family about it. His family — daughters Saina and Grace and son Andrew — has never known a life where they weren’t ridiculously rich. What follows is Charles, his wife Barbra, Grace, and Andrew traveling across the country to stay with oldest daughter Saina, and the ways that each of them deal with their newfound circumstances.
This was a book club pick, and I’m not sure I would ...more
This was a book club pick, and I’m not sure I would ...more
I really enjoyed this. An interesting twist on the "dysfunctional family comes together in the wake of a tragedy" genre that I feel like we have seen a lot of. A Chinese family rather than a Jewish family! All of the characters evolved, and all seemed likable and unlikable and sympathetic in their own ways. I enjoyed the variety of perspectives. The ending was very satisfying. I will agree with other reviewers who said that untranslated passages of Chinese are frustrating for non-Mandarin speaki
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