'Crazy Rich Asians' author Kevin Kwan is back with modern Asian American spin on 'A Room With a View'
: I felt that it was very relevant to the time and is very relevant to what is happening in America now. So many friends and family members are"hapa" [partially of Asian or Pacific Islander descent] and they have so many different challenges depending on who their family is and what kind of values their parents instilled in them.
When we first meet Lucie she is 19 years old and heading to Capri with her older cousin for the very fancy wedding of her former babysitter, Isabel, in Capri. It’s there that she meets Isabel’s Chinese Australian cousin George Zao, whom she finds both weird and intriguing. They hook up, leaving Lucie’s cousin Charlotte terrified that her reputation is ruined.
It was a nice twist that it was the white side of her family was like this, since the stereotype is that Asian Americans are very focused on family reputation.: I wanted to flip that cliché on its head. Her mom’s side of the family — the Chinese American side — couldn't care less about those traditions. They are forging new paths in this country and they are in many ways so much more modern and forward-thinking than the Churchills.
That also comes up when George’s mother wants to buy an apartment in a ritzy co-op building in Manhattan. Even though she is extremely wealthy, she says the co-op board is unlikely to approve her because another Chinese family already lives there.: I used satire as a way to look at these issues in a way that is very honest and very kind of in your face, but yet not. It’s a way to tell these stories in a way that is more palatable rather than in the form of just an angry book.
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