![]() ![]() ![]() The story is told from all five of the Wangs’ third-person POVs. Charles pulls Andrew, his virginal, aspiring-comedian son, and Grace, his style- and suicide-obsessed teen daughter, out of schools that he can no longer afford and packs them into the only car that wasn’t repossessed-along with their wealth-addicted stepmother, Barbra. the World follows the Wang family on a cross-country journey from their foreclosed Bel-Air home to the Upstate New York retreat of Charles’s eldest daughter, Saina, an art-world “It Girl” in hiding after the disaster of her most recent show and the breakup of her engagement. Now all Charles wants is to get his family safely stowed away so that he can go back to China, the homeland he has never even seen, and attempt to reclaim his ancestral lands. When the book begins, it is the late summer of 2008, and thanks to a bad case of “irrational exuberance,” he has just lost it all. ![]() He is a brash, brilliant, lovable asshole who came to America and built a cosmetics fortune. ![]() He grows up with a yen for his family’s unseen acres in a lost homeland. the World, was raised in Taiwan, having fled the Communists in mainland China. Charles Wang, the patriarch at the heart of The Wangs V. ![]()
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