β Scribed by Jade Chang
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**"One of the best debut novels of 2016" --Elle.com **
"[A] jam-packed, high energy debut . . . Head-spinning fun." --Kirkus
A hilarious debut novel about a wealthy but fractured Chinese immigrant family that had it all, only to lose every last cent --and about the road trip they take across America that binds them back together
Charles Wang is mad at America. A brash, lovable immigrant businessman who built a cosmetics empire and made a fortune, he's just been ruined by the financial crisis. Now all Charles wants is to get his kids safely stowed away so that he can go to China and attempt to reclaim his family's ancestral lands--and his pride.
Charles pulls Andrew, his aspiring comedian son, and Grace, his style-obsessed daughter, out of schools he can no longer afford. Together with their stepmother, Barbra, they embark on a cross-country road trip from their foreclosed Bel-Air home to the upstate New York...
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