Jade Chang is the best! This novel feels like it's representative of the newest wave of authors to take the contemporary fiction stage. It's the story of the Wang family, headed by Charles Wang, who came to the U.S. from China and ended up making a fortune in the makeup industry. Then 2008 hits and he looses all his assets. So he gets the idea to do a giant road trip from Los Angeles to New York where his oldest daughter lives, the only one who wasn't financially affected by the financial blow. On the way, Charles picks up his other two children, and together with his second wife they run into all manner of calamity on their travels. The book is really funny in the way that family road trip books often are, even though the underlying story is serious, and each chapter is told from the perspective of a different family member. I loved listening to this on audio, because I got to hear all the Mandarin spoken correctly, giving the story a more three-dimensional feel. Definitely check this one out!