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Real Americans : a novel / Rachel Khong.
"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?"-- Provided by publisher.
"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?" -- Book jacket.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593537251
- ISBN: 0593537254
- ISBN: 9780593802373
- ISBN: 0593802373
- ISBN: 6780183685143
- ISBN: 0593685148
- ISBN: 9780593685143
- Physical Description: 399 pages ; 25 cm.
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2024.
- Copyright: ©2024
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- Read with Jenna"This is a Borzoi book." -- title page verso.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Beijing, 1966 -- Part One: Lily -- Part Two: Nick -- Part Three: May -- Acknowledgments -- A Note About the Author -- A Note on the Type.
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lummi Library | KHON 2024 | 100001680 | Fiction | Available | - |