The author of Crazy Rich Asians returns with another outrageous comedy of manners, family and money. So much money.
, is dangerously absorbing and deceptively clever. Like all his books, it follows the eccentric personalities of the absurdly ultra-wealthy with a pixie-ish flair, not unlike the wayThe story begins with a wedding between Lady Augusta Leung Gresham and Prince Maximillian Zu Lichtenberg of Norway. .
Less than 24 hours before the wedding, the bride mutates into a hot ball of rage when her mother insists she wear a couture Valentino dress that costs more than a two-storey sandstone in Sydney. The bride just wants to wear something charming by a local Hawaiian designer. “Tell me what I’m supposed to do without my Agnes Martins? My powder room will never look the same,” Arabella cries in the spirit ofNow Arabella’s goal of marrying off her children “to the debilitated descendants of Victoria and Albert” has become even more urgent. She’s especially concerned about her only son, Rufus, a wayfaring dreamer who spends his time painting and surfing and being described by the press as “sex on a stick” whose “brow ridges alone could command half a billion.
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