Eleanor crashes Rachel and Nick’s wedding, which she had previously opposed, and tells Rachel that she has found her long-lost father. She hires a woman from an elite family, Corinna Ko-Tung, to advise her. In another plot, the soap actor Kitty Pong, now the wife of a Singaporean multimillionaire, fumbles an attempt to work her way into the elite social circles. Charlie and Astrid strike up a friendship. Astrid and her husband, Michael, have recently become extremely wealthy thanks to a shadow investment made by Charlie Wu and have since become too arrogant to tolerate. Meanwhile, Eleanor’s son, Nick Young, prepares to marry his fiancée, Rachel Chu. Because one passenger has died and another, Rachel, is paralyzed, Bao convinces Eddie to blackmail Eleanor Young into covering up the accident. Bao is waiting to learn the condition of her son, who was just in a car accident after driving recklessly. Eddie meets with Bao Shaoyen, a wealthy client at the bank where he works. The novel, along with its prequel and sequel, has been praised for subverting Asian stereotypes using humor. Rather than move toward a single, peaceful resolution, the novel focuses on the endlessly complex, game-like, real-time decisions and consequences that define the characters’ lives. The story begins two years after the prequel, following a cast of characters who scramble to hold their tenuous relationships and reputations together in elite Chinese and Chinese-American social circles, which are notorious for being cutthroat and political.

The second book in a trilogy, Singaporean author Kevin Kwan’s satirical romance novel China Rich Girlfriend (2015) is preceded by Crazy Rich Asians, which was also adapted into a 2018 film.

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