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Real Americans

byRachel Khong

Genres: Fiction Life-Rediscovery Journeys Intergenerational Friendships

Who is this book for? Readers interested in family sagas, identity exploration, and contemporary social issues.

Topics IdentityFamilyPrivilegeBetrayalForgiveness

MoodHopeful, Reflective

Female protagonist

RomanceMajor Subplot

Explicit scenesSuggestive Themes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • READ WITH JENNA’S MAY BOOK CLUB PICK • F rom 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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Published on

01/01/2024

Pages

416

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9780593802373

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