Sex
and Vanity: A Novel
by Kevin Kwan
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"Kevin
Kwan's new book is his most decadent yet." --Entertainment Weekly
The
iconic author of the bestselling phenomenon Crazy Rich Asians returns with the
glittering tale of a young woman who finds herself torn between two men: the
WASPY fiancé of her family's dreams and George Zao, the man she is desperately
trying to avoid falling in love with.
On her very first morning on
the jewel-like island of Capri, Lucie Churchill sets eyes on George Zao and she
instantly can't stand him. She can't stand it when he gallantly offers to trade
hotel rooms with her so that she can have a view of the Tyrrhenian Sea, she
can't stand that he knows more about Casa Malaparte than she does, and she
really can't stand it when he kisses her in the darkness of the ancient ruins
of a Roman villa and they are caught by her snobbish, disapproving cousin
Charlotte. "Your mother is Chinese so it's no surprise you'd be attracted
to someone like him," Charlotte teases. The daughter of an American-born
Chinese mother and a blue-blooded New York father, Lucie has always sublimated
the Asian side of herself in favor of the white side, and she adamantly denies
having feelings for George. But several years later, when George unexpectedly
appears in East Hampton, where Lucie is weekending with her new fiancé, Lucie
finds herself drawn to George again. Soon, Lucie is spinning a web of deceit
that involves her family, her fiancé, the co-op board of her Fifth Avenue
apartment building, and ultimately herself as she tries mightily to deny George
entry into her world--and her heart. Moving between summer playgrounds of
privilege, peppered with decadent food and extravagant fashion, Sex and Vanity
is a truly modern love story, a daring homage to A Room with a View, and a
brilliantly funny comedy of manners set between two cultures.
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