Real Americans: A Novel by Rachel Khong adult fiction beautiful past is very much

beautiful past is very much alive

Pajama pants make dangly hats

but as the young woman before her

Taking refuge on a remote island

Real Americans: A Novel by Rachel Khong adult fiction beautiful past is very muchReal Americans begins on the precipice of Y2K in New York City, when twenty two year old Lily Chen, an unpaid intern at a slick media company, meets Matthew. Matthew is everything Lily is not: easygoing and effortlessly attractive, a native East Coaster, and, most notably, heir to a vast pharmaceutical empire. Lily couldn't be more different: flat broke, raised in Tampa, the only child of scientists who fled Maos Cultural Revolution. Despite all this,