Crazy Rich Asians

I picked up this book when I borrowed "War Trash" by Ha Jin at Menlo Park

library. I enjoyed the latter in the following days but have since been reading

"Crazy Rich Asians" on and off. I've gone through the first and last few

chapters and learned the tragedies of Astrid's and Nick's marriages, which do

not surprise me.

 

The author does a great job picturing the lives of the rich Asians as it invoked

a physical response, a nausea, that made it hard for me to continue.

 

It felt unreal, however. This is fiction but, this day and age, nobody could be

that shallow or naive when it comes to one's own happiness. Moreover, I'd like to

give the rich the benefit of the doubt--generations of wealth should've taught

them something more than consuming materials.