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A hilarious debut book about a wealthy but fractured Chinese immigrant family that possessed it all, and then lose every previous cent - and about the street trip they take across America that binds them back together. Charles Wang is mad at America. A brash, lovable immigrant entrepreneur who built a beauty products empire and made a fortune, he's just been ruined by the financial crisis. Now all Charles needs is to get his kids securely stowed away so that he can go to China and try to reclaim his family's ancestral lands - and his pride. Charles pulls Andrew, his aspiring comedian kid, and Grace, his style-obsessed princess, out of academic institutions he can't afford. As well as their stepmother, Barbra, they go on a cross-country road trip of their foreclosed Bel-Air home to the upstate NY hideout of the eldest princess, disgraced artwork world it-girl Saina. But with his son waylaid by the temptress in New Orleans, his wife ready to defect for a couple of 1,000-thread-count linens, and an epic smash-up in NEW YORK, Charles may need to choose between the old world and the new, between keeping his family intact and lastly fulfilling his imagine starting anew in China. Outrageously funny and filled with elegance, The Wangs vs. the World can be an entirely fresh look at what it means to belong in America - and how going from glorious riches to (still name-brand) rags brings one family mutually in ways money never could.
