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Real Americans

A novel

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 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • READ WITH JENNA’S MAY BOOK CLUB PICK • From the award-winning author of Goodbye, Vitamin: How far would you go to shape your own destiny? An exhilarating novel of American identity that spans three generations in one family and asks: What makes us who we are? And how inevitable are our futures?

"Mesmerizing"—Brit Bennett • "A page turner.”—Ha Jin • “Gorgeous, heartfelt, soaring, philosophical and deft"—Andrew Sean Greer • "Traverses time with verve and feeling."—Raven Leilani

Real Americans begins on the precipice of Y2K in New York City, when twenty-two-year-old Lily Chen, an unpaid intern at a slick media company, meets Matthew. Matthew is everything Lily is not: easygoing and effortlessly attractive, a native East Coaster, and, most notably, heir to a vast pharmaceutical empire. Lily couldn't be more different: flat-broke, raised in Tampa, the only child of scientists who fled Mao’s Cultural Revolution. Despite all this, Lily and Matthew fall in love.

In 2021, fifteen-year-old Nick Chen has never felt like he belonged on the isolated Washington island where he lives with his single mother, Lily. He can't shake the sense she's hiding something. When Nick sets out to find his biological father, the journey threatens to raise more questions than it provides answers.

In immersive, moving prose, Rachel Khong weaves a profound tale of class and striving, race and visibility, and family and inheritance—a story of trust, forgiveness, and finally coming home.

Exuberant and explosive, Real Americans is a social novel par excellence that asks: Are we destined, or made? And if we are made, who gets to do the making? Can our genetic past be overcome? Créateurs asiatiques Fiction de genre Historique Littérature mondiale Destin Sincère
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Part 1 is a well written but not that unusual a poverty-to-riches love story, with only occasional commentary on the sexism and racism experienced by young Chinese American women. The shocking revelation that brings together hints and innocuous details we now come to understand as ominous foreshadowings does not happen till the very end of Part 1. Part 2 shifts to another character narrating their perspectives, as does Part 3: three sections, three generations of mother-child relationships across massive geo-cultural divides. By the end, I wept at nno longer being with these people. I was especially moved by Mei, the grandmother, whose life spanned the greatest suffering and dislocations caused by oppressive political regimes and violent movements. The rings spreading from the deep self insight Mei comes to are moving and beautiful.

Fascinating structure for a 3-generation tale

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