Over the years, Chang has written for a number of magazines but most consistently for Metropolis, a high-end New York-based architecture and design magazine. She went cross-country for college, however, to Cornell University in upstate New York where she received her B.A. Chang herself was born in Ohio, although when she was nine, her family moved to California, a place she now considers home. the World, was published to wide acclaim in 2016.Ĭhang's parents met when the two came to the U.S. Jade Chang is an American editor, journalist, and author. Currently-lives in Los Angeles, California.Together with their stepmother, Barbra, they embark on a cross-country road trip from their foreclosed Bel-Air home to the upstate New York hideout of the eldest daughter, disgraced art-world it-girl Saina.īut with his son waylaid by a temptress in New Orleans, his wife ready to defect for a set of 1,000-thread-count sheets, and an epic smashup in North Carolina, Charles may have to choose between the Old World and the New, between keeping his family intact and finally fulfilling his dream of starting anew in China. Now all Charles wants is to get his kids safely stowed away so he can go to China and attempt to reclaim his family s ancestral lands and his pride.Ĭharles pulls Andrew, his aspiring-comedian son, and Grace, his style-obsessed daughter, out of schools he can no longer afford. A brash, bighearted immigrant businessman who built a cosmetics empire and made a fortune, he s just been ruined by the financial crisis.
Meet the Wangs, the unforgettable immigrant family whose spectacular fall from glorious riches to (still name-brand) rags brings them together in a way money never could.Ĭharles Wang is mad at America.
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