Rachel Khong
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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 Maos Cultural Revolution. Despite all this,...
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""Incredibly poignant ... Rachel Khong's first novel sneaks up on you -- just like life ... and heartbreak. And love."--Miranda July A few days after Christmas in a small suburb outside of L.A., pairs of a man's pants hang from the trees. The pants belong to Howard Young, a prominent history professor, recently diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Howard's wife, Annie, summons their daughter, Ruth. Freshly disengaged from her fiance and still broken...
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È la vigilia del nuovo millennio a New York quando Lily Chen, ventiduenne stagista in una rivista online, incontra Matthew. Lui è tutto ciò che lei non è: spensierato, affascinante, un autentico newyorchese, e soprattutto rampollo di un impero farmaceutico. Lily, invece, è una ragazza di provincia, senza un soldo e figlia di immigrati. I suoi genitori sono due scienziati fuggiti dalla Rivoluzione Culturale di Mao che negli Stati Uniti hanno trovato...

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