01843cam a2200349 i 4500 1750389618 TxGeo 20241114120000.0 240104s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023056709 9780593545546 hbk. 0593545540 hbk. (OCoLC)1416896707 TxGeo rda Wang, Weike, author. Rental house : a novel / Weike Wang. New York, NY : Riverhead Books, 2024. 215 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Keru and Nate first meet in college, brought together by a joke at a Halloween party (would a 'great white' costume mean dressing like a shark or a privileged Ivy League student?) and marrying a few years later. Misfits in their own families, they find in each other a feeling of home. Keru is the only child of strict, well-educated Chinese immigrant parents who hold her to impossible standards even as an adult ('To use a dishwasher is to admit defeat,' says her father). Nate is from a rural, white, working class family that has never trusted his intellectual ambitions or--now--the citizenship status of his 'foreign' wife. Nevertheless, some years into their marriage, Keru and Nate find themselves incorporating their families into two carefully planned vacations"-- Provided by publisher. 20241206. Interracial marriage Fiction. Marriage Fiction. Families Fiction. Parents-in-law Fiction. Chinese Americans Fiction. Chinese American families Fiction. Vacations Fiction. QS5