The Wangs vs. the World

A fun romp of a road trip novel as multi-millionaire, cosmetics mogul Charles Wang loses everything during the financial crises and decides to load up his second wife into a borrowed Mercedes and set out from his seized BelAir mansion to pick up his two youngest children and descend on the eldest daughters farm in upstate New York.

These kids are second-gen, monied, white-adjacent, trainwrecks. Andrew has dreams of being a stand-up comic, Grace is an emo, style-blogger and Saina is an exiled New York art-monster. Theirs is the story of being part of a coherent and unique identity that is defined neither by their ancestors country of origin or their father's adopted home. Even Charles is stuck between worlds and finds himself immigrating to both countries in search of something better. They all uniquely personify what it is to be Asian-American.

They are messed up, capable of incredibly bad decisions based on questionable justifications and victim to the mistakes they invariably make over and over again. Human, imperfect, still trying.