![]() In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, his creditors were reluctant to lend more money and repossessed his business and personal assets. He would bet the future of the company (and his personal fortune) on the success of a new line of cosmetics designed to appeal to "ethnic" skin types, but the line was not a success. ![]() As common to immigrant families, dialogue between family members is conducted in a mix of the adopted country's language (English) and native tongue ( Mandarin Chinese, romanized for print but otherwise untranslated).Ĭharles Wang is the patriarch of a family of five, a self-made millionaire who parlayed his family connections to the urea industry into a cosmetics empire. The novel chronicles the cross-country road trip of Chinese/Taiwanese immigrant Charles Wang and his family to his eldest daughter's house after Wang's bankruptcy in the wake of the financial crisis of 2007–2008. the World is the debut comic novel by Jade Chang, published in 2016. ![]() Front of the dustjacket for the (1st) hardback edition ![]()
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