Weike Wang's new novel "Rental House" is out now. (Book cover courtesy Riverhead Books; author photo courtesy Amanda Petersen) Some sayings are so fixed in the popular imagination that when you hear ...

There's a scene that might resonate this week - a woman sits around a campfire with her husband, Nate, and her in-laws at a rental house on Cape Cod. It's several days into their togetherness when all ...

Rental House, a novel of marriage and manners, tries to make sense of how a blended family negotiates conflicts of race and class. Near the beginning of Weike Wang’s first novel, Chemistry, an unnamed ...

On the surface, Weike Wang’s rueful and tender third novel, “Rental House,” is a portrait of a seemingly low-key marriage in which both husband and wife regularly downgrade expectations so as to avert ...

Relationships are tricky. Interracial relationships are arguably trickier. If you’ve been anywhere on social media in the past five years, you’ve probably come across one or more of the following: ...

Vacation rental with the in-laws — for many, it’s a setup for disaster. In Weike Wang’s “Rental House,” it’s certainly that. It’s also an opportunity for Wang, a wildly gifted writer, to explore the ...

"Joan is Okay" centers around a Chinese American ICU doctor trying to chart her own course through family troubles and the pandemic. Author Weike Wang explores issues of family and identity in new ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go. The ending of this book made me cry. The story builds slowly but the ...

RENTAL HOUSE. By Weike Wang. Riverhead Books. 224 pages. $28. Vacation rental with the in-laws — for many, it’s a setup for disaster. In Weike Wang’s “Rental House,” it’s certainly that. It’s also an ...