
' Fresh energetic & completely hilarious The Wangs vs the World is my favorite debut of the year' Jami Attenberg author of Saint Mazie & The Middlesteins Charles Wang has just lost the cosmetics fortune he built up since emigrating to the US Gone are the houses the cars & the incredible lifestyle Faced with this loss he decides to take his family on a trip to China & attempt to reclaim his ancestral lands But first they must go on a cross-country journey from their foreclosed Bel-Air home to the Upstate New York retreat of his eldest daughter Saina Charles takes his other two children out of schools that he can no longer afford & packs them into the only car that wasn't repossessed
- along with their wealth-addicted stepmother Barbra But with his son waylaid by a much older temptress in New Orleans his wife ready to defect for a set of 1000-thread-count sheets & an epic smash-up in North Carolina Charles may have to choose between the old world & the new between keeping his family intact & finally finally fulfilling his dream of China