Rental House Author:Weike Wang 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 father), wh... more »ile Nate’s rural, white, working-class family distrusts his intellectual ambitions and his “foreign” wife.
Some years into their marriage, the couple invites their families on vacation. At a Cape Cod beach house, and later at a luxury Catskills bungalow, Keru, Nate, and their giant sheepdog navigate visits from in-laws and unexpected guests, all while wondering if they have what it takes to answer the big questions: How do you cope when your spouse and your family of origin clash? How many people (and dogs) make a family? And when the pack starts to disintegrate, what can you do to shepherd everyone back together?« less
ISBN-13: 9780593949030 ISBN-10: 059394903X Publication Date: 12/3/2024 Pages:224 Edition:Large type / Large p Rating:
I could not get on board with this book, find it witty or enjoy the writing style. Just generalizations after generalizations about two families, which became too tedious to bear, finally.