she is forced to reflect on the sacrifices she’d made for an industry that never loved her back and pick up the pieces of the life she thought she’d left behind for good
Her quiet world is upended when her childhood hero
it becomes clear that everything that has happened and is yet to come is much bigger than Kolis and his dark obsessions
With his signature generosity and eye for food
she will spend decades trying to uncover this family secret
Rental House: A Novel by Weike Wang books she is forced to reflectKeru and Nate are college sweethearts who marry despite their family differences: Kerus strict, Chinese, immigrant parents demand perfection (To use a dishwasher is to admit defeat, says her father), while Nates 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,