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Real Americans

A Novel

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Real Americans

De: Rachel Khong
Narrado por: Louisa Zhu, Eric Yang, Eunice Wong
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER READ WITH JENNA’S MAY BOOK CLUB PICK • 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?

©2024 Rachel Khong (P)2024 Random House Audio
Estados Unidos Ficción Histórica Género Ficción Literatura Mundial Vida Familiar Destino Sincero

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"Remarkable... Folded into [Real Americans] are doomed love stories, fancy parties, a subplot about epigenetics, Chinese people who look white and yummy treats... The book also poses a dizzying array of questions: What does it mean to be American, and who gets to say who is one?”—Robert Ito, The New York Times

“A…masterful, shape-shifting novel about multiracial identity….What makes Americans 'real'? Is it our competitive drive? Our craving for wealth and status? Our insatiable quest for scientific advancement? Or is it—inevitably—the color of our skin and eyes?... [Rachel] Khong manages these twisting threads with masterful deftness.... [An] irresistible puzzle of a novel."—Aimee Liu, Los Angeles Times

"[Rachel] Khong layers the lives of her characters to challenge how well we can really know one another... [Khong]…captures the feeling of floating in the in-between, not firmly tethered to one pole of identity or another but instead looking for a way to feel secure in your own space... And that title—Real Americans—evokes more questions than any single book could answer. What is American, and what is real?"—Lucy Feldman, TIME

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Narrators Poor - Story Not Engrossing

I was hoping the hype was real. This story is a mixed bag, I really didn’t care about any characters.
The narrators often mispronounced words.

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Didn't do it for me

This was a book that a lot of people said made it to one of their greatest reads of the year. Sadly, it didn’t do the same for me. I loved the narration as I listened to this on audio. It is very easy to listen to. I was listening very intently up until the last leg when it switched to the 3rd POV. It just got boring for me. Am I alone in this?

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Chinese perspective broadened my perspective.

Towards the end, the voices didn't seem to match the POV. It was confusing. Multiple stories converge in the end, getting there required paying attention.

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Multigenerational mystery and family drama

The book swept me up completely. Rachel Khong’s writing was absolutely beautiful and relatable as the daughter of a Chinese mother myself. The way that she wove three characters’ perspectives together was brilliant and the story itself made me want to stay up late into the night reading. I liked the first two sections/characters better than the third, but overall loved. Fabulous book and highly recommend!!

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Beautiful generational story

A compelling tale of a Chinese family's emigration to America and the generational cultural changes that they go through, as well as an interesting science twist.

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Relationship story

I thought that the book was a bit shallow and very woke like. I didn’t like many of the ideas there, but there was some interesting parts related to relationships

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An enjoyable book spanning three generations.

I was a little confused which way things were going to go. It all worked out. Really liked it .

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Very thought provoking about Chinese decedents with American born children and the difficulties they face…

May going into her crazy thoughts, but I loved learning all she had been through getting to America

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Not for me

The story was very hard to engage with. The characters seem to be overly self-conscious about a lot of issues and in some cases sounded more like nagging than anything else.

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Could jot put it down

As Americans we assume we have it all and take our parents grandparents story to get us here for granted. Well told story of the intertwining of 3 generations in a broken family nucleus.

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