.kevinkwanbooks’ “Sex and Vanity” is the kind of book you can take to whatever beach substitute you’re working with right now (the bedroom with the most sun, or a patch of asphalt at the nearest park) and escape for a little while, sangeetaskurtz reviews
Photo: Amazon Kevin Kwan is responsible for introducing many Westerners to a universe hitherto unknown to them: the modern Asian upper-crust and their mind-boggling wealth. His 2013 debut novel Crazy Rich Asians was inspired by Kwan’s own childhood growing up among Singapore’s one percent, and follows a middle-class Chinese-American woman meeting her boyfriend’s rich Singaporean family for the first time.
In Capri, Lucie falls for George Zao, an aloof Chinese princeling and champion surfer who is studying sustainable design at Berkeley . George and Lucie have a steamy public hookup that ends in disaster when it’s caught on drone video and almost released to TMZ. When Charlotte finds out, she’s scandalized, reacting with racist condescension. “I can understand it. After all, [George] is Chinese.
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