Counterfeit: A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick and New York Times BESTSELLER - the most exciting and addictive heist novel you’ll read this summer!

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Seemingly, what you see is what you get — a con artist story, a pop-feminist caper, a fashionable romp. She's married to a successful surgeon and has just taken an indefinite career break to raise her adorable toddler. She has left her prestigious job as an attorney to be a stay-at-home mom with a toddler who has behavior issues. when you grow up as I did, schooled in the supremacy of “face”—the figurative face, the image, reputation, honor that must be fought for and preserved at all costs—breaking free from constraints to think for oneself becomes a Herculean task. I used to be all about getting a new Coach or a Kate Spade purse (at the outlets) but ever since the start of the pandemic, I’ve been fine carrying the same purse.

S. passport to help manage her business–someone who’d never be suspected of wrongdoing, someone like Ava. Chen tries to pack all this in, but the whole thing collapses under the weight of her vision and her indecision and her mediocre prose. But the shy, awkward girl Ava once knew has been replaced with a confident woman of the world, dripping in luxury goods, including a coveted Birkin in classic orange.The novel is written as an interview between Ava and the detective, which we are only reminded of every 50 pages or so. Confessions are inherently unreliable because the speaker has a clear agenda – to prove her innocence and hopefully go free – so readers understand from the get-go that she’s not entirely trustworthy, even if they don’t yet grasp to what extent. This was a fun story from the perspectives of two very different young women and that, perhaps, is how it should be.

BookBrowse seeks out and recommends the best in contemporary fiction and nonfiction—books that not only engage and entertain but also deepen our understanding of ourselves and the world around us. For each donated book I get through Ko-fi, I donate one of my current books to make room and continue paying it forward. I think disturbing true crime stories are having a pause in popularity and people are more engaged with scam artist tales told from an entertaining point of view. It seems much easier to make a novel a global success if the authors cater to the needs of readers from other countries according to their misconceptions.S. passport to help manage her business—someone who'd never be suspected of wrongdoing, someone like Ava. College roommates Ava Wong and Winnie Fang were never close—but now they are literally partners in crime, with a designer handbag scam as brazen as it is foolproof.

In this crime drama, a risk-averse former lawyer joins an elaborate fakebag scheme to finally get some thrills. Though it must be said that at this point Chinese businesses and purchasers have beaten us at our own game. Ava‘s portrayal is especially strong, she is not happy in her current life and plays it safe until she doesn’t. Enter Winnie Fang, Ava’s enigmatic college roommate from Mainland China, who abruptly dropped out under mysterious circumstances. It’s also a story of model minority syndrome interlaced with a larger conversation about what it means to be successful in this system.The topic the author is trying to discuss has already been discussed multiple times by other authors like Kevin Kwan. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH).

some people don’t like the “telling” vs “showing” trope of a book (think BLOOD SUGAR) but i didn’t mind it one bit. At face value, Kirstin Chen’s new novel, “Counterfeit,” is easy to sum up: Ava Wong, a strait-laced Chinese American lawyer, reconnects with her enigmatic college roommate, Winnie, and becomes entangled in a scheme that involves importing counterfeit luxury handbags.They felt like the anomaly in Ava’s life and story, and it seems that they had more weight and definition into the events then maybe they first appear, besides the obvious ways. To access your ebook(s) after purchasing, you can download the free Glose app or read instantly on your browser by logging into Glose. It was absolutely addictive from the start, and the use of the framing device and teetering characterizations of Ava and Winnie delighted me and gave me whiplash.