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Rental House
A General Fiction Novel by Weike Wang
Subgenres:
- Marriage in Crisis,
- Family Drama,
- Immigrant Family
This book is for you if you're into...
- Family vacations where in-laws collide and chaos simmers
- Sharp, witty takes on cross-cultural marriage dynamics
- Big questions about what makes a family, sheepdog included
From the award-winning author of Chemistry, a sharp-witted, insightful novel about a marriage as seen through the lens of two family vacations.
Keru and Nate are college sweethearts who marry despite their family differences: Keru's strict, Chinese, immigrant parents demand perfection ('To use a dishwasher is to admit defeat,' says her father), while Nate's rural, white, working-class family distrusts his intellectual ambitions and his 'foreign' wife.
Some years into their marriage, the couple invites their families on vacation. At a Cape Cod beach house, and later at a luxury Catskills bungalow, Keru, Nate, and their giant sheepdog navigate visits from in-laws and unexpected guests, all while wondering if they have what it takes to answer the big questions: How do you cope when your spouse and your family of origin clash? How many people (and dogs) make a family? And when the pack starts to disintegrate, what can you do to shepherd everyone back together?
With her wry, wise, and simply spectacular style, Weike Wang offers a portrait of family that is equally witty, incisive, and tender.
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