Bøger af Rachel Khong

** THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER **'Insightful and heartfelt' GLAMOUR'Easy to inhale' GUARDIAN'Mesmerizing' BRIT BENNETT, author of THE VANISHING HALF***HOW FAR WILL WE GO TO BELONG? On the precipice of Y2K, unpaid intern Lily Chen is attempting to live the American dream in New York City. But her scientist parents imagined so much more for her when they fled Mao's cultural revolution, hoping for a better life. Despite the glamour of her media job, Lily can barely make rent - until she falls into the arms of Matthew. This young financier can give her a fairy tale life of luxury, and for the first time her dreams appear within reach.High school student Nick Chen and his best friend Timothy are plotting to break free. College promises escape from an isolated and close-knit island in Washington State, space from his strict and secretive mum Lily, and the chance to finally fit in. But when Nick sets out to find his long-lost father, a world of questions opens, and it is one unexpected member of the Chen family who holds the key to it all.Real Americans is a family epic about identity, sacrifice, choices and fate. It is a wildly imaginative and profound story of betrayal and forgiveness that asks us how far we should go for those we love.***'Traverses time with verve and feeling' RAVEN LEILANI, author of LUSTER'An eye-opener, imaginative and exhilarating' HA JIN, author of WAITING'Gorgeous, heartfelt, soaring, philosophical and deft' ANDREW SEAN GREER, author of LESS

"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?"--

"Real 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. In 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."--

"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?"--

Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, O, The Oprah Magazine, Vogue, San Francisco Chronicle, Esquire, Huffington Post, Nylon, Entertainment Weekly, Buzzfeed, Booklist, and The IndependentWinner of the California Book Award for First FictionLos Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist for First Fiction"A quietly brilliant disquisition . . . told in prose that is so startling in its spare beauty that I found myself thinking about Khong's turns of phrase for days after I finished reading."-Doree Shafrir, The New York Times Book Review"One of those rare books that is both devastating and light-hearted, heartful and joyful. . . . Don't miss it."-Buzzfeed"Hello, Rachel Khong. Kudos for this delectable take on familial devotion and dementia."-NPRHer life at a crossroads, a young woman goes home again in this funny and inescapably moving debut from a wonderfully original new literary voice.Freshly disengaged from her fiancé and feeling that life has not turned out quite the way she planned, thirty-year-old Ruth quits her job, leaves town and arrives at her parents' home to find that situation more complicated than she'd realized. Her father, a prominent history professor, is losing his memory and is only erratically lucid. Ruth's mother, meanwhile, is lucidly erratic. But as Ruth's father's condition intensifies, the comedy in her situation takes hold, gently transforming her all her grief. Told in captivating glimpses and drawn from a deep well of insight, humor, and unexpected tenderness, Goodbye, Vitamin pilots through the loss, love, and absurdity of finding one's footing in this life.

Wenn das Gedächtnis des eigenen Vaters schwindet, hilft nur noch Humor. Und ein gutes Steak.Rachel Khongs Debütroman »Das Jahr, in dem Dad ein Steak bügelte« thematisiert den Moment im Leben jedes Menschen, wenn sich das Eltern-Kind-Verhältnis umkehrt. Sehr humorvoll beschreibt sie den Alltag mit einem dementen Familienmitglied, mit all seinen traurigen Tiefen, aber auch mit den urkomischen Höhen. Ruth ist 30, als ihr Verlobter sie plötzlich verlässt. Völlig aus der Bahn geworfen, kommt sie der Bitte ihrer Mutter nach, kündigt Job und Wohnung und zieht für ein Jahr wieder zurück zu ihren Eltern. Dort soll sie ein Auge auf ihren Vater werfen, einen berühmten Geschichtsprofessor, der nach und nach sein Gedächtnis verliert. Aus purer Verzweiflung verbannt seine Ehefrau alles aus dem Haus, was nur irgendwie im Verdacht steht, Demenz zu begünstigen. Ruth schafft es aber zusammen mit einigen Verbündeten, dem Leben ihres Vaters noch einmal einen Sinn zu geben, indem sie zum Beispiel sein geliebtes Seminar zur amerikanischen Geschichte heimlich weiterhin stattfinden lassen, ohne dass der Dekan Wind davon bekommt. Mit viel Humor und einer ordentlichen Portion Situationskomik schildert Ruth das Jahr mit ihrem Vater, das die beiden immer enger zusammenschweißt.»Unglaublich ergreifend. Rachel Khongs erster Roman schleicht sich an, so wie das Leben es manchmal tut. Und der Herzschmerz. Und die Liebe.« Miranda July

A handbook, a cookbook, an eggbook: this quasi-encyclopedic ovarian overview is the only tome you need to own about the indispensable egg. Eggs: star of the most important meal of the day, and, to hear billions of cooks and chefs tell it, quite possibly the world's most important food. Does that make Lucky Peach's All About Eggs the world's most important book? Probably yes. In essays, anecdotes, how-tos, and foolproof recipes, this egg-centric volume celebrates everything an egg can be and do. Whether illuminating the progress of an egg through a chicken, or teaching you how to poach the perfect egg, All About Eggs bursts with facts to deploy at your next cocktail party-then serves up a killer deviled egg recipe to serve while you're doing it. All About Eggs is for anyone who has ever delighted in the pleasures of an omelet, marveled at the snowflake patterns on a century egg, or longed to make a sky-high soufflé.