Rental House A Novel

Weike Wang

eBook - 2024

“Sharp, insightful, occasionally heartbreaking, and incredibly relatable.”—Gabrielle Zevin, author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow“For anyone who’s experienced demanding parents, misunderstanding in-laws, a vacation-gone-wrong, or mid-life questions about how to reconcile your own personality liabilities with those of the person you love most.”—Elif Batuman, author of The IdiotFrom 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: Keru’s strict, Chinese, immigrant parents demand perfection (“To use a dishwasher is to admit defeat,” says her fat...her), while Nate’s rural, white, working-class family distrusts his intellectual ambitions and his “foreign” wife.... more