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Usually with Media Monday's I try to have it come out near the time of the actually event. This happened about a month ago, but I decided that it was fine. Literature is archaic. You don't need to be informed of it ahead of time. I'm pumped for this novel. I've actually just started reading it and it is everything.
The novel is called China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan. I fell in love with his first book Crazy Rich Asians last summer and told everyone to read it. No one did. China Rich Girlfriend is the follow up to the first one and I'm dying. |
Kevin Kwan
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I found out about his first novel, because an excerpt of it was put in Vogue. I can tell your judging me and that's fine. That's where I find out about all my literature. It's the reason I'm checking out Anna Erelle's In The Skin of a Jihadist. Which, should be absolutely fascinating.
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Crazy Rich Asians plays with stereotypes. I feel like Kevin Kwan is playing with and criticizing the way Americans perceive and lump together Asian cultures. However, I have not taken the time to analyze it in this way. I really need one of my literature professors to read it and tell me what they think.
Jackie Collins
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The first novel was lauded by Jackie Collins and she is queen. I would say the novel is in the style of that, except less trashy and more wholesomeish fun. The basic premise of Crazy Rich Asians is that Rachel Chu is going to Singapore with her fiancee Nick to meet the family.
What she doesn't know is that his family is the pedigreed rich. Something he didn't tell his ABC (American Born Chinese) girlfriend. There is back biting, gossip, disapproval. Scandal. This is the central plot, but it is certainly not the only one. This novel works off of this dynamic of an intricate web of relationships. |
China Rich Girlfriend should be leaving us off where Crazy Rich Asians left us. With a solid ending and reasonable certainty that Nick and Rachel would be married.
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It's received warm reviews much like the first one. It's funny. Original. Modern. It came out on the same day that a string of albums made there way into the world. Breathe In. Breathe Out, The Fool, Deja Vu. This novel starts before the ceremony.
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It's guaranteed to be a heated mess. Where at first it seems only a little messy and then heat is applied to it so what was once a little mess is now even mesier.
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For me it's the literary event of the year along with Jackie Collin's new novel. Get yourself a copy at the local library. I don't know about you, but I don't have twenty dollars to drop on a nice hardcover book.
That said mama didn't think twice about it when Kim Kardashian dropped Selfish. I would have emptied my bank account for that book. Get your summer on. And if you have the money go support the arts. |
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