{"id":2360,"date":"2016-12-07T21:17:02","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T15:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fableandi.com\/?p=2360"},"modified":"2020-03-04T17:18:07","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T11:48:07","slug":"wangs-vs-world-jade-chang-witty-journey-bankrupt-family-across-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebooksatchel.com\/wangs-vs-world-jade-chang-witty-journey-bankrupt-family-across-america\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wangs vs the World by Jade Chang &#8211; Witty Journey of a Bankrupt Family across America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Charles Wang, a businessman, realises he has lost all his money, he packs what he can into a car and sets off to seek shelter in the house of his elder daughter. On the way the Wang family realises what it means to stand for each other.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The Wangs vs the World\u00a0<\/em>is Jade Chang\u2019s debut novel about the Wang family. Charles Wang is an incredibly successful business man who came over from China and made his fortune in the make-up industry in the United States. The business suffers a huge blow with the onset of recession coupled with some bad investment decisions and he is left penniless. Not just him, he has to withdraw his daughter, Grace, and son, Andrew, \u00a0from school because he cannot afford to pay the tuitions. (as well as give up their cars because there is no money). Yes! Whoosh \u2013 Everything you might call wealth disappears overnight for the Wangs. Completely broke, Charles starts a journey across America to pick up his two youngest children from school, and drive towards his eldest daughter, Saina\u2019s home, which is \u00a0the only place they can go. \u00a0Along the way, the masks the family members have worn peel off and they rediscover what it means to be family.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2365\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2365\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2365 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.thebooksatchel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/the-wangs3.jpg\" alt=\"The Wangs vs the World by Jade Chang\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thebooksatchel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/the-wangs3.jpg?w=960&amp;ssl=1 960w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thebooksatchel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/the-wangs3.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thebooksatchel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/the-wangs3.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2365\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Wangs vs the World by Jade Chang<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Characters<\/h3>\n<p>The character sketch deserves a round of applause for such detailed descriptions. Chang puts together a wonderful display of the troubles faced by American born Chinese youngsters and the gap between them and their parents. The side- characters in the novel are delightfully described as well.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Charles is the well rounded patriarch whose business empire has collapsed and he has nothing in the world except his family and what he has packed inside the car.\u00a0 In the end he comes to the conclusion that \u201c<em>The Communists had it all wrong. It wasn\u2019t the rich who were imprisoned by their possessions, it was the poor<\/em>\u201d. When Amah (the nurse who looked after Charles himself and later his children) gives back her 1980 Mercedes that Charles had gifted her years ago to help the Wang family wade through the dark waters, he feels as if \u201c<em>he was sucking on her nipple again, a grown man in Armani trying to draw milk out of her wizened breast<\/em>.\u201d There is a sharp contrast in the way Amah feels about the Wang family and her \u00a0own daughter\u2019s outlook about the family.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Barbra, Charles\u2019 second wife, who \u201c<em>had given nothing but her bullish charm to this family \u2013 she hadn\u2019t made the money or borne the children or even decorated the house or cooked the food. He\u2019d done the first, his second wife had done the second, and they\u2019d hired people to do the rest<\/em>\u201d reflects on her decisions to marry Charles and her life before setting foot on the US soil.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bloggers rejoice! Because Grace is a blogger (who often quotes Virginia Woolf) and she faces the same judgement that many bloggers face in everyday life from those who do not understand the blogging world. I found her character sketch so refreshing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Andrew, the son, dreams of being a stand-up comedian, has a self made mantra to sleep only with the one he is love with. However in an unpredictable sequence of events, he abandons the family for an older woman with &#8220;<em>crazy blue diamond eyes with light eyelashes that were a very pale pink and amazing masses of goldish red hair like some sort of fairy queen<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Saina is my least favourite of the characters and her sketch fell flat for me. She seems to fall into the clich\u00e9 of the \u2018confused in love\u2019. I think I would never understand how characters in TV shows and novels often sleep with people and give the same excuse \u201cI was confused\u201d. In the story, Saina is the last resort for the Wang family for a roof over their heads, but she is in a mess with a cheating fianc\u00e9, a new boyfriend and an unexpected blow in her career in the art world.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2367\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2367\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2367 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.thebooksatchel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/the-wangs1.jpg\" alt=\"The Wangs vs the World by Jade Chang\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thebooksatchel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/the-wangs1.jpg?w=960&amp;ssl=1 960w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thebooksatchel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/the-wangs1.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thebooksatchel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/the-wangs1.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2367\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Wangs vs the World by Jade Chang<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Writing<\/h3>\n<p>The humour in the novel is spot-on and had me chuckling at several places. Here is an example of Chang\u2019s take on magazines &#8211;<br \/>\n\u201c<em>Women\u2019s magazines were all about feeling something. There was advice on how to feel pretty, how to feel love and how to feel happy, all sold to you by making you feel like you were none of those things. Men\u2019s magazines on the other hand, were about making money, going to places, having sex with beautiful women, and eating rare or bloody things. Passions, not emotions<\/em>.\u201d<br \/>\nThere are many sentences that are written in Chinese. Though at the beginning of the novel, I had difficulty deciphering what is being told, Chang gets the hang of it at quarter the length of the book. There on, a sentence in Chinese is followed by another character speaking the same (asking a question or nodding yes), so the meaning comes out to the reader who cannot understand Chinese.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The writer is effortless in nature which makes the book a fast read. I found a few hiccups towards the end of the novel, but they are not big enough to complain about.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Theme<\/h3>\n<p>The novel is family and love, how a family that isn\u2019t as close as they should be, find themselves thrown together in unexpected circumstances.<br \/>\nCharles\u2019 children are not aware of his past \u2013 his family fleeing from the violence of China\u2019s Little Red Guard and his father\u2019s resettlement in Taiwan. All these stories spill out over the course of the book to the reader, though not necessarily to the Wang children. Charles\u2019 hope to reclaim what he had lost in China and start anew shows the\u00a0 grit of his character and makes the reader motivated to see him through his journey.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2366\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2366\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2366 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.thebooksatchel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/the-wangs2.jpg\" alt=\"The Wangs vs the World by Jade Chang\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thebooksatchel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/the-wangs2.jpg?w=960&amp;ssl=1 960w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thebooksatchel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/the-wangs2.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thebooksatchel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/the-wangs2.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2366\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Wangs vs the World by Jade Chang<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Final Verdict<\/h3>\n<p>This is an excellent book of you are looking for a great witty read for the holidays. The characters are quirky and the text is sprinkled with sarcasm and humour. Overall, a very enjoyable read.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Title : The Wangs vs the World<br \/>\nAuthor : Jade Chang<br \/>\nPublisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt<br \/>\nPublished : 2016<br \/>\nLanguage : English<br \/>\nPages : 368<br \/>\nRating : 4\/5<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em>Disclaimer : Much thanks to HMH for the book. All opinions are my own.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Charles Wang, a businessman, realises he has lost all his money, he packs &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6307,16],"tags":[6369,2309,6611],"thb-sponsors":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.9 (Yoast SEO v22.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Wangs vs the World by Jade Chang - Witty Journey of a Bankrupt Family across America | The Book Satchel<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Wangs vs the World is the journey of Wang and his family across America after their business breaks apart. 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