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Rental House: A Novel Audiobook
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From the award-winning author of Chemistry, a sharp-witted, insightful novel about a marriage as seen through the lens of two family vacations
Keru 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.
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"Funny and delightful, Rental House is a story for anyone who’s experienced demanding parents, misunderstanding in-laws, a vacation-gone-wrong, or mid-life questions about how to reconcile your own personality liabilities with those of the person you love most."
— Elif Batuman, author of The Idiot
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Wang uses sharp detail and gentle humor to portray the evolution of a thoughtful partnership.
— Los Angeles Times -
Wonderfully acerbic…Wang excels at setting the tone with biting prose…and the scenes of family drama are compulsively readable. It’s a tour de force.
— Publishers Weekly [STARRED REVIEW] -
A tender portrait of family and what ties them together, or sometimes makes them clash.
— SheReads -
A sharp and affecting portrait of a couple navigating their hopes, anxieties, and families of origin over time, Rental House is sparkling with insight, its characters drawn with love and precision.
— Lisa Ko, author of Memory Piece -
Sharp, insightful, occasionally heartbreaking, and incredibly relatable.
— Gabrielle Zevin, author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow -
A sharp and affecting portrait of a couple navigating their hopes, anxieties, and families of origin over time, RENTAL HOUSE is sparkling with insight, its characters drawn with love and precision.
— Lisa Ko, author of Memory Piece -
Wang uses sharp detail and gentle humor to portray the evolution of a thoughtful partnership.
— Los Angeles Times -
Wang uses sharp detail and gentle humor to portray the evolution of a thoughtful partnership.
— Los Angeles Times -
Funny and delightful, Rental House is a story for anyone who’s experienced demanding parents, misunderstanding in-laws, a vacation-gone-wrong, or mid-life questions about how to reconcile your own personality liabilities with those of the person you love most.
— Elif Batuman, author of The Idiot -
Wonderfully acerbic…Wang excels at setting the tone with biting prose…and the scenes of family drama are compulsively readable. It’s a tour de force.
— Publishers Weekly [STARRED REVIEW] -
Wang is an incisive writer with sharp psychological insight ...[Rental House] is subtle and powerful in its cultural critique and will surely be relatable for anyone who has in-laws. A compelling portrait of family dynamics under pressure.
— Kirkus [STARRED REVIEW] -
“A tender portrait of family and what ties them together, or sometimes makes them clash.
— SheReads
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About Weike Wang
Weike Wang is an author whose first novel, Chemistry, received the PEN/ Hemingway Award for Debut Fiction, the Ploughshares John C. Zacharis First Book Award, and a Whiting Award. She is a “5 Under 35” honoree of the National Book Foundation. Born in Nanjing, China, and raised in Australia, Canada, and the United States, she graduated from Harvard University, where she earned her undergraduate degree in chemistry and her doctorate in public health.