{"product_id":"real-americans-a-read-with-jenna-pick-a-novel","title":"Real Americans: A Read with Jenna Pick: A novel","description":"NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • READ WITH JENNA’S MAY BOOK CLUB PICK • From the award-winning author of Goodbye, Vitamin: How far would you go to shape your own destiny? An exhilarating novel of American identity that spans three generations in one family and asks: What makes us who we are? And how inevitable are our futures?\n\n\"Mesmerizing\"—Brit Bennett • \"A page turner.”—Ha Jin • “Gorgeous, heartfelt, soaring, philosophical and deft\"—Andrew Sean Greer • \"Traverses time with verve and feeling.\"—Raven Leilani\n\nReal Americans begins on the precipice of Y2K in New York City, when twenty-two-year-old Lily Chen, an unpaid intern at a slick media company, meets Matthew. Matthew is everything Lily is not: easygoing and effortlessly attractive, a native East Coaster, and, most notably, heir to a vast pharmaceutical empire. Lily couldn't be more different: flat-broke, raised in Tampa, the only child of scientists who fled Mao’s Cultural Revolution. Despite all this, Lily and Matthew fall in love.\n\nIn 2021, fifteen-year-old Nick Chen has never felt like he belonged on the isolated Washington island where he lives with his single mother, Lily. He can't shake the sense she's hiding something. When Nick sets out to find his biological father, the journey threatens to raise more questions than it provides answers.\n\nIn immersive, moving prose, Rachel Khong weaves a profound tale of class and striving, race and visibility, and family and inheritance—a story of trust, forgiveness, and finally coming home.\n\nExuberant and explosive, Real Americans is a social novel par excellence that asks: Are we destined, or made? And if we are made, who gets to do the making? Can our genetic past be overcome?\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0593537254\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.0593537254.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Khong, Rachel\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Pages are clean with no markings. May show minor signs of wear or cosmetic defects  marks, cuts, bends, or scuffs  on the cover, spine, pages, or dust jacket. May have remainder marks on edges.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41457278812218,"sku":"DBV.0593537254.VG","price":6.13,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/0593537254-0.jpg?v=1781113880","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/real-americans-a-read-with-jenna-pick-a-novel","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}