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Real Americans; A Novel
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Real Americans; A Novel Hardcover - 2024

by Khong, Rachel

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2024. First edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 399pp. 8vo. Paper over boards, stamped spine. Book is a stated First Edition and a first printing with no additional printings showing. Author has signed her name on a tipped-in page. Book is unread, unclipped, unmarked, tight, bright, and the jacket has an archival protector. Signed sticker on jacket front. Spine heel mildly bumped, spine head bumped as well as the corner. Rachel Khong's first novel was "Goodbye, Vitamin.
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  • Title Real Americans; A Novel
  • Author Khong, Rachel
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First edition. First Printing
  • Condition Used - Fine
  • Pages 416
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Alfred A. Knopf, New York
  • Date 2024
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 0004090
  • ISBN 9780593537251 / 0593537254
  • Weight 1.5 lbs (0.68 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.37 x 6.14 x 1.57 in (23.80 x 15.60 x 3.99 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: Asian - General
    • Topical: Family
  • Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, National characteristics, American
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2023009880
  • Dewey Decimal Code 813.6

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From the publisher

READ WITH JENNA'S MAY BOOK CLUB PICK - A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK - 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?

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Citations

  • Booklist, 01/01/2024, Page 26
  • BookPage, 05/01/2024, Page 0
  • Kirkus Reviews, 02/01/2024, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 11/01/2023, Page 4
  • Publishers Weekly, 02/26/2024, Page 0

About the author

RACHEL KHONG is the author of Goodbye, Vitamin, winner of the California Book Award for First Fiction and named a Best Book of the Year by NPR; O, The Oprah Magazine; Vogue; and Esquire. Her work has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Cut, The Guardian, The Paris Review, and Tin House. In 2018, she founded The Ruby, a work and event space for women and nonbinary writers and artists in San Francisco's Mission District. She lives in California.

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