Rachel Khong
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
What makes us who we are? And how inevitable are our futures? Lily Chen, an unpaid intern at a slick media company in New York, meets Matthew, the confident heir to a vast pharmaceutical fortune. Despite their vast differences--she's the only child of scientists who fled Mao's Cultural Revolution--they fall in love. Decades later, her son Nick Chen, an outsider on the isolated Washington island where lives with his single mother, can't shake the sense...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"A few days after Christmas in a small suburb outside of L.A., pairs of a man's pants hang from the trees. The pants belong to Howard Young, a prominent history professor, recently diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Howard's wife, Annie, summons their daughter, Ruth. Freshly disengaged from her fiance and still broken up about it, feeling that life has not turned out quite the way she planned, thirty-year- old Ruth quits her job, and arrives home...