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Rental House
by Weike Wang
作者：Weike Wang
作者Weike Wang来自南京，5岁随父母先后来到澳大利亚、加拿大，现在生活在美国。Weike Wang从哈佛大学化学系本科毕业后，博士在读期间开始转行写小说，处女作《化学反应》一出版，就得到了包括《纽约时报》在内的许多美国媒体的高度评价。
凯鲁和内特是一对大学情侣，尽管家庭背景不同，他们还是结了婚：凯鲁的父母是严格的中国移民，要求完美（她父亲说：“使用洗碗机就是承认失败”），而内特的父母是农村的白人工人阶级，不信任他的知识抱负和他的“外国”妻子。结婚几年后，这对夫妇邀请家人一起度假。在科德角的海滨别墅，以及后来在卡茨基尔的豪华平房里，凯鲁、内特和他们的大牧羊犬一边应付姻亲和不速之客的来访，一边思考他们是否有能力回答这些重大问题： 当你的配偶和你的原生家庭发生冲突时，你该如何应对？多少人（和狗）才能组成一个家庭？当这个家庭开始解体时，你能做些什么来把大家重新凝聚在一起？Weike Wang以她“狡黠、睿智、简单而壮观”的风格（《人物》）和“让人想起吉什·詹和诺拉·埃夫隆的搞笑死板”（《奥普拉杂志》），为读者描绘了一幅同样诙谐、精辟和温情的家庭画卷。From the award-winning author of Chemistry, a sharp-witted, insightful novel about a marriage as seen through the lens of two family vacationsKeru and Nate are college sweethearts who marry despite their family differences: Keru’s strict, Chinese, immigrant parents demand perfection (“To use a dishwasher is to admit defeat,” says her father), while Nate’s rural, white, working-class family distrusts his intellectual ambitions and his “foreign” wife. Some years into their marriage, the couple invites their families on vacation. At a Cape Cod beach house, and later at a luxury Catskills bungalow, Keru, Nate, and their giant sheepdog navigate visits from in-laws and unexpected guests, all while wondering if they have what it takes to answer the big questions: How do you cope when your spouse and your family of origin clash? How many people (and dogs) make a family? And when the pack starts to disintegrate, what can you do to shepherd everyone back together?With her “wry, wise, and simply spectacular” style (People) and “hilarious deadpan that recalls Gish Jen and Nora Ephron” (O, The Oprah Magazine), Weike Wang offers a portrait of family that is equally witty, incisive, and tender.
