Category: General Fiction, Novel
Language: EnglishKeywords: Cape Cod Catskill Mountains Chinese American Family Marriage
Written by Weike Wang
Read by Jen Zhao
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 80 Kbps
Unabridged
From the award-winning author of Chemistry, a sharp-witted, insightful novel about a marriage as seen through the lens of two family vacations
Keru and Nate are college sweethearts who marry despite their family differences: Keruâs strict, Chinese, immigrant parents demand perfection (âTo use a dishwasher is to admit defeat,â says her father), while Nateâs rural, white, working-class family distrusts his intellectual ambitions and his âforeignâ wife.
Some years into their marriage, the couple invites their families on vacation. At a Cape Cod beach house, and later at a luxury Catskills bungalow, Keru, Nate, and their giant sheepdog navigate visits from in-laws and unexpected guests, all while wondering if they have what it takes to answer the big questions: How do you cope when your spouse and your family of origin clash? How many people (and dogs) make a family? And when the pack starts to disintegrate, what can you do to shepherd everyone back together?
December 3 2024
5 hrs and 47 mins
From the award-winning author of Chemistry, a sharp-witted, insightful novel about a marriage as seen through the lens of two family vacations
Keru and Nate are college sweethearts who marry despite their family differences: Keruâs strict, Chinese, immigrant parents demand perfection (âTo use a dishwasher is to admit defeat,â says her father), while Nateâs rural, white, working-class family distrusts his intellectual ambitions and his âforeignâ wife.
Some years into their marriage, the couple invites their families on vacation. At a Cape Cod beach house, and later at a luxury Catskills bungalow, Keru, Nate, and their giant sheepdog navigate visits from in-laws and unexpected guests, all while wondering if they have what it takes to answer the big questions: How do you cope when your spouse and your family of origin clash? How many people (and dogs) make a family? And when the pack starts to disintegrate, what can you do to shepherd everyone back together?
December 3 2024
5 hrs and 47 mins