Crazy Rich Asians (Crazy Rich Asians, #1)

by Kevin Kwan

“Oh, when we were just teenagers, we spent one summer together on Capri. His auntie Catherine, the Thai one, took a villa there. We would follow the sun all day—start out sunbathing at the beach club by the Faraglioni rocks in the mornings, go swimming in Grotta Verde after lunch, and end up at Il Faro beach for sunset. We got so brown, and Nicky’s hair got so long—he looked practically Italian! That’s when the Italian kids we made friends with started calling him Nico and I was his Mandi. Oooh, it was such a glorious time.”

Reading this, it just occurred to me how pivotal a role Capri has played in my life. I discovered the island for the first time with the same friend (mentioned earlier in these annotations) who would encourage me to move to New York, the one who had that theory about when men settled down and who would later challenge and inspire me to write the prologue scene of this book. It's rather fitting that I've come full circle with my new novel "Sex & Vanity," which is set on the magical island of Capri. (Find out more about "Sex & Vanity" on Goodreads here: www.goodreads.com/book/show/52064314-sex-and-vanity?ref=knh)