Título: Real Americans: A novel
Autor: Rachel Khong
Sinopse: 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?
Contexto da obra
Como livro em inglês, esta obra costuma ganhar também uma camada própria de interesse editorial e linguístico. “Real Americans: A novel”, de Rachel Khong, publicado pela editora Random House Large Print, em 2024 e com 608 páginas, integra a categoria Livros em Inglês. Por isso, o interesse da obra tende a se ampliar quando o leitor considera também a relação com a língua em que ela circula.
Editora: Random House Large Print
Páginas: 608
Ano: 2024
Edição: Large type / Large print
Linguagem: en
ISBN: 0593862767
ISBN13: 9780593862766
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Random House Large Print oferecem uma experiência de leitura marcada por narrativas que exploram conflitos humanos intensos, muitas vezes ambientados em cenários contemporâneos ou históricos ricos em detalhes. O catálogo privilegia histórias com personagens complexos, que enfrentam dilemas pessoais, familiares ou sociais, em contextos que vão de dramas familiares a thrillers policiais e narrativas de suspense. O tom dessas obras varia entre o emocionalmente denso e o envolvente, com ritmo que pode ser tanto tenso quanto contemplativo, dependendo do foco da trama. A diversidade do catálogo inclui tanto romances que exploram relações e segredos quanto thrillers que mantêm a tensão até o final.
