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#FridayReads: AUTUMN by Ali Smith, THE IDIOT by Elif Batuman, THE WANGS VS. THE WORLD by Jade Chang, IT DEVOURS! by Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor. #amreading

“Every immigrant is the person he might have been and the person he is, and his homeland is at once the place it would have been to him from the inside and the a place it must be to him from the outside.” . . . I really enjoyed Jade Chang’s ‘The Wangs Vs. The World’! It’s about a Chinese-American family that loses their wealth in the financial crisis and the father that looks to the East to gain it back. As someone that’s read a lot of books tagged as “immigrant narratives,” this one stands out by giving us characters that don’t see America as a place to lose themselves in but rather as a place to rebuild and mold their identities into. That said, the novel is light-hearted, funny, and a little crass all the while giving us a new angle on the ‘American Dream.’ . . . #JadeChang #TheWangsVstheWorld #KindlePrimeReading #ContemporaryFiction

I received my first @bookofthemonthclub box! Not only am I super excited to read these books, but they're also these special editions with the book of the month club logo on the jacket and embossed on the cover. I'm so excited to start collecting them! . . . . #books #bookstagram #bookphotography #bookphoto #igreads #instabooks #bookblogger #bookblog #adultbooklr #bookish #reading #thewangsvstheworld #themothers #britbennett #jadechang #booklover #bookworm #bookish #booknerd