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Real Americans: A Read with Jenna Pick
A Novel
AvRachel Khong
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
159 kr
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • 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?"Mesmerizing"—Brit Bennett • "A page turner.”—Ha Jin • “Gorgeous, heartfelt, soaring, philosophical and deft"—Andrew Sean Greer • "Traverses time with verve and feeling."—Raven LeilaniReal 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.In 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.Exuberant 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?
Real Americans: A Read with Jenna Pick
AvRachel Khong
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
377 kr
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A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK • 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? 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. In 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. Exuberant 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?
Real Americans
A novel
AvRachel Khong
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
200 kr
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My Dear You: Stories
AvRachel Khong
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
236 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
Lucky Peach All About Eggs
Everything We Know About the World''s Most Important Food
AvRachel Khong
E-bok
Engelska, 2017
114 kr
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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.From the Hardcover edition.
Goodbye, Vitamin
A Novel
AvRachel Khong
E-bok
Engelska, 2017
187 kr
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Winner 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 ReviewHer 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 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.
Goodbye, Vitamin
A Novel
AvRachel Khong
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
219 kr
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Winner 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 ReviewHer 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.
Retro 4: Selections from Joyland Magazine
AvBrian Joseph Davis,Sarah Gerardm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2014
142 kr
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Goodbye, Vitamin
AvRachel Khong
E-bok
Engelska, 2017
102 kr
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An O: the Oprah Magazine and Amazon.com Best Book of 2017 'Khong is a magician ... Brilliant' Lauren Groff, author of Fates and Furies ‘Khong’s first novel sneaks up on you – just like life, illness and heartbreak. And love. A million small, human and often deeply funny details gather force to tell a tale that is ultimately, incredibly poignant’ Miranda July, author of The First Bad ManRuth is thirty and her life is falling apart: she and her fiancé are moving house, but he's moving out to live with another woman; her career is going nowhere; and then she learns that her father, a history professor beloved by his students, has Alzheimer’s. At Christmas, her mother begs her to stay on and help. For a year.Goodbye, Vitamin is the wry, beautifully observed story of a woman at a crossroads, as Ruth and her friends attempt to shore up her father’s career; she and her mother obsess over the ambiguous health benefits – in the absence of a cure – of dried jellyfish supplements and vitamin pills; and they all try to forge a new relationship with the brilliant, childlike, irascible man her father has become. 'A beautifully written debut, dreamy and funny ... flawless' Independent ?'Biting, funny and poignant and makes you wish you’d thought of writing it first' Stylist, '50 Unmissable Books' 'Like a chain of fairy lights in the darkness' Financial Times 'One of the funniest elegiac novels I have ever read' David Leavitt, author of The Lost Language of Cranes
Goodbye, Vitamin
AvRachel Khong
Ljudbok
Engelska, 2017
241 kr
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A beautifully written coming-of-age debut, dreamy and funny ... flawlessIndependent Khong is a magician... Brilliant Lauren Groff, author of Fates and Furies '';Khong''s first novel sneaks up on you just like life, illness and heartbreak. And love. A million small, human and often deeply funny details gather force to tell a tale that is ultimately, incredibly poignant'' Miranda July, author of The First Bad ManRuth is thirty and her life is falling apart: she and her fiancÃ© are moving house, buthes moving out to live with another woman; her career is going nowhere; and then she learns that her father, a history professor beloved by his students, has Alzheimer''s. At Christmas, her mother begs her to stay on and help. For a year. Goodbye, Vitaminis the wry, beautifully observed story of a woman at a crossroads, as Ruth and her friends attempt to shore up her father''s career;she and her mother obsess over the ambiguous health benefits in the absence of a cure of dried jellyfish supplements and vitamin pills;and they all try to forge a new relationship with the brilliant, childlike, irascible man her father has become. ?Biting, funny and poignant and makes you wish you''d thought of writing it firstStylist,50 Unmissable Books A deceptively complex tale of dementia and its impact on a family Like a chain of fairy lights in the darkness Financial Times One of the funniest elegiac novels I have ever readDavid Leavitt, author ofThe Lost Language of Cranes
My Dear You
AvRachel Khong
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
210 kr
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'Incandescent and explosive and compassionate all at once' BRYAN WASHINGTON'Rachel Khong is one of our best observers of the human condition' RITA BULLWINKEL'Beautiful, effortless' AIMEE BENDERFrom the author of the New York Times bestselling REAL AMERICANS comes a playful, richly inquisitive collection exploring the connections and disruptions which define us. Throughout MY DEAR YOU, normal people go through extraordinary transformations. A government injects its people with a drug that makes them see everyone else as members of their own race and gender. A factory worker develops an unlikely friendship with the artificially intelligent sex doll she is tasked with training. God decides that humanity is a lost cause and gives each person 24 hours to decide in which animal form they will spend the rest of their days.Along the way, characters are confronted with supernatural and otherworldly interventions, as well as the earthly, human concerns that shape our daily lives: capitalism and race, intimacy, memory, and mortality.Playful and tender, dark and witty, each of these stories is infused with a profound sense of compassion. They express a powerful curiosity about the human experience, and the inescapable choices that meet us all: to have or not have children; to pursue connections with others in spite of life’s impermanence; how to live – and live well.***Praise for Rachel Khong'Mesmerizing' BRIT BENNETT'Gorgeous, heartfelt, soaring, philosophical and deft' ANDREW SEAN GREER'Traverses time with verve and feeling' RAVEN LEILANI'A page turner' HA JIN
Real Americans
AvRachel Khong
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
135 kr
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** THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER **'Insightful and heartfelt' GLAMOUR'Easy to inhale' GUARDIAN'Mesmerizing' BRIT BENNETT, author of THE VANISHING HALF***New York City, 1999. Lily Chen is an unpaid intern, pursuing the American Dream, when she falls for a young financier – and the life of luxury his vast fortune promises. Everything she wants seems to finally be within reach. But deep down, she knows that her ambitious scientist mother, Mei, imagined so much more for her when she fled the unspoken horrors of Mao’s cultural revolution.Twenty years later, Lily is a single parent, estranged from her own family and increasingly isolated from her teenage son, Nick. Desperate to break free from their life on a remote island in Washington State, Nick strives to live better than the generation before him, unable to understand his mother’s choices. But when he looks into the past and is unexpectedly confronted by the ghosts of his grandmother’s young life in 1960s China, he risks unsettling a legacy of family secrets – passed on from mother, to daughter, to son. Following three generations of one Chinese American family, REAL AMERICANS is a mesmerising, multilayered family drama which explores the choices we make for ourselves, and for our children. Spanning decades and continents, it is a soaring, heartfelt story about fate, fortune, and what it means to belong. ***'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
My Dear You
AvRachel Khong
Häftad, Engelska, 2027
135 kr
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My Dear You
A playful, tender and profound new collection from the bestselling author of Goodbye Vitamin and Real Americans
AvRachel Khong
E-bok
Engelska, 2026
144 kr
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'Incandescent and explosive and compassionate all at once' BRYAN WASHINGTON'Rachel Khong is one of our best observers of the human condition' RITA BULLWINKEL'Beautiful, effortless' AIMEE BENDERFrom the author of the New York Times bestselling REAL AMERICANS comes a playful, richly inquisitive collection exploring the connections and disruptions which define us. Throughout MY DEAR YOU, normal people go through extraordinary transformations. A government injects its people with a drug that makes them see everyone else as members of their own race and gender. A factory worker develops an unlikely friendship with the artificially intelligent sex doll she is tasked with training. God decides that humanity is a lost cause and gives each person 24 hours to decide in which animal form they will spend the rest of their days.Along the way, characters are confronted with supernatural and otherworldly interventions, as well as the earthly, human concerns that shape our daily lives: capitalism and race, intimacy, memory, and mortality.Playful and tender, dark and witty, each of these stories is infused with a profound sense of compassion. They express a powerful curiosity about the human experience, and the inescapable choices that meet us all: to have or not have children; to pursue connections with others in spite of life’s impermanence; how to live – and live well.***Praise for Rachel Khong'Mesmerizing' BRIT BENNETT'Gorgeous, heartfelt, soaring, philosophical and deft' ANDREW SEAN GREER'Traverses time with verve and feeling' RAVEN LEILANI'A page turner' HA JIN
Real Americans
AvRachel Khong
Inbunden, Tyska, 2026
308 kr
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Real Americans
Roman
AvRachel Khong
E-bok
Tyska, 2026
243 kr
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Ein großer amerikanischer Roman darüber, was uns zu denen macht, die wir sindDer große Bestseller aus den USA – so ein Buch gibt es nur alle zehn Jahre! Ein Sommer in New York, der alles verändert. Ein Sohn auf der Suche nach seiner Herkunft. Und die große Frage: Was macht uns zu dem, was wir sind? Sie werden dieses Buch nicht aus der Hand legen können.New York City, Silvester 1999. Lily Chen ist 22, Tochter chinesischer Einwanderer und unbezahlte Praktikantin in einem hippen Medienunternehmen. Als sie Matthew trifft – charmant, privilegiert, Erbe eines Pharmaimperiums –, verliebt sie sich. Zwei Welten prallen aufeinander. Und doch scheint alles möglich.21 Jahre später lebt Lilys Sohn Nick mit ihr auf einer abgelegenen Insel. Er spürt: Etwas fehlt. Als er nach seinem Vater sucht, stößt er auf Geheimnisse, die alles verändern – nicht nur für ihn.
Das Jahr, in dem Dad ein Steak bügelte
Roman
AvRachel Khong
E-bok
Tyska, 2018
193 kr
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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
My Dear You: Stories
AvRachel Khong
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
378 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar

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Real Americans: A Read with Jenna Pick

Real Americans: A Read with Jenna Pick

Real Americans

My Dear You: Stories

Lucky Peach All About Eggs

Goodbye, Vitamin

Goodbye, Vitamin

Retro 4: Selections from Joyland Magazine

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My Dear You

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Real Americans

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