The Wangs vs The World

 
　　查爾斯．王（Charles Wang）失去了他移民到美國所建立起來的化妝品帝國：房子、汽車、令人稱羨的高檔生活全都一夕消失。查爾斯以為他一無所有了，但並非如此，他發現在中國有一塊祖傳的地，於是他決定攜家帶眷，回中國要回那塊地。
 
　　查爾斯那個為了錢嫁給他的第二任妻子芭芭拉，不認為查爾斯回中國向共產黨要回那塊地的計畫是個好主意，但查爾斯確信他這次鐵定能成功，但查爾斯首先要做的是把全家人集合起來。於是查爾斯離開洛杉磯那間被法拍的家，借了一輛汽車（之前送給保姆的那輛），載著芭芭拉、念高中的女兒葛雷絲與二兒子安德魯，一起踏上跨州之旅，準備到紐約州尋找大女兒賽娜。
 
　　隨著這個家庭的瘋狂冒險展開，王家的旅程演繹出一段充滿喜劇、激情、陰謀、自省，以及關於家庭最重要意義的故事。抒情的語言、幽默詼諧的文化觀察，每個角色都擁有自己的故事，不但增添人性的複雜性，也讓這本迷人的小說豐富度大增，令讀者的關注度從第一頁一直持續到最後一頁。（文／博客來編譯）

　　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 cross-country road trip 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 hideout of the eldest daughter, disgraced art world it-girl Saina. But 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 the rest of them involved in an epic smash-up 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.

　　Outrageously funny and full of charm,The Wangs Vs. the World is an entirely fresh look at what it means to belong in America-and how going from glorious riches to (still name-brand) rags brings one family together in a way money never could.