02151cam a2200325 i 4500 1262096626 TxAuBib 20240430120000.0 240430s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780593537251 29.00 0593537254 29.00 TxAuBib rda Khong, Rachel. Real Americans [Book] : A Novel. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2024. 399 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier 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? 20240430. National characteristics, American Fiction. Families Fiction. Asian Americans Fiction. Chinese Americans Fiction. New York (N.Y) Fiction. Washington (State) Fiction. Domestic fiction. Novels.