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Theresa and I are starting this one today, 4/26
This one sounds really good! Excited to get started on this one in the next few days :)
I just entered the GRs giveaway for this one. It sounds interesting!
How did y'all like it? I picked it up at B&N a couple weeks ago.
I got behind or distracted and never got to this🤦🏽♀️
I ended up really loving it!My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
It was a very touching story that probably hit me at the right moment - about being a mom and wanting so much more for your kids
and wondering if you made more mistakes than good things.
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 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 so, who gets to do the making? Can our genetic past be overcome?