Sex And Vanity

Кван Кевин

The iconic author of Crazy Rich Asians, the bestselling novel, returns with a sparkling tale of love and desire as a young woman is torn between the WASP world of her family and the charismatic George Zao. On her first morning in Capri, she meets George and instantly dislikes him. He offers to swap hotel rooms so she can see the Tyrrhenian sea, but she doesn’t like that he knows about Casa Malaparta more than her. She also doesn’t want him to kiss her in front of her snobby cousin Charlotte, who teases her about her mother being Chinese. Lucie, the daughter of an Asian mother and an American father, has always suppressed her Asian side in favor of her white side. She denies feeling anything for George, but years later when he appears in East Hamptons, she is drawn to him again. She tries to keep him out of her life, but ends up entangled in a web of lies involving her family, fiancé, apartment building board, and herself. Sex and Vanity, set in the summer playground of privilege and filled with decadence and fashion, is a modern love story that pays homage to Room with a view and is a hilarious comedy of manners between two cultures.