![]() ![]() Left without a place to stay, he gathers up his two youngest children: Andrew, a college student who dreams of. ![]() The story kicks off when Charles Wang, a wealthy industrialist, loses all his money in the wake of the 2008 financial collapse. 'A hilarious debut novel about a wealthy but fractured Chinese immigrant family that had it all, only to lose every last cent-and about the road trip they take across America that binds them back together'-, 'Charles Wang is mad at America. "When the Wangs take the world, we all benefit" (USA Today). The World traces the rollicking road trip of a brilliant family. "Highly entertaining" (BuzzFeed), this "fresh Little Miss Sunshine" (Vanity Fair) is a "compassionate and bright-eyed novel" (New York Times Book Review), an epic family saga, and a new look at what it means to belong in America. ![]() Together with their wealth-addicted stepmother, Barbra, they head on a cross-country journey from their foreclosed Bel-Air home to the Upstate New York retreat of the eldest Wang daughter, Saina. ![]() So he rounds up two of his children from schools that he can no longer afford and packs them into the only car that wasn't repossessed. For fans of Crazy Rich Asians: Meet the Wangs, the unforgettable immigrant family whose spectacular fall from glorious riches to (still name-brand) rags brings them together in a way money never could.Ĭharles Wang, a brash, lovable businessman who built a cosmetics empire and made a fortune, has just lost everything in the financial crisis. ![]()
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