April Goodard

China Rich Girlfriend (Kevin Kwan)
If you loved the novel and recently smash-hit movie adaptation of Kevin Kwan’s Crazy Rich Asians, discover how the story continues with the sequel and second book in the trilogy China Rich Girlfriend. After over two years of not speaking with his ‘crazy rich’ family in Singapore, the supposed former heir to Tyersall Park, Nicolas Young, is planning a wedding with his professor fiancé Rachel Chu. Although they endured a vast amount of disapproval from Nick’s mother and matriarchal grandmother in the previous novel, Rachel and Nick have decided to carry on with their initial plans of matrimony. Meanwhile, blackmailed socialite and mother of the exiled groom-to-be Eleanor Young has hired a private investigator to look into the life of one of China’s most ultra-rich. Eleanor learns far more than she bargained for when she discovers that this obscenely wealthy politician has a strange connection with her daughter-in-law to be…

The finding sends Rachel Chu on a journey to discover who she is and where she came from. As she starts to put together the missing pieces from her past, she learns that she may not be exactly who she thinks she is. Kevin Kwan’s China Rich Girlfriend visits the fact that nothing is for certain, impossible as it may seem.

The Windfall (Dikshua Basu)

After spending the better half of their lives in the same jobs, routines, and even apartment complexes in East Delhi, the Jhas become privy to a literal change in scenery when Mr. Jha’s company becomes unimaginably successful overnight, leaving them much better off than they were before. Through the sale of their company and their new accumulation of wealth, the Jhas have manufactured an entirely new life for themselves after more than 30 years. Their son now attends a university in the United States. The small apartment that they once shared with Mr. Jha’s mother was traded in for an extravagant home, shiny new car, and a new place in the wealthier part of Indian society. But as the Jhas find themselves neither here nor there, how will they learn to cope with their newly acquired wealth socially given that they are no longer part of their old neighborhood, and not yet familiar with the nuances of the wealthy?

Follow the story of the Jhas in Diksha Basu’s The Windfall as they try to navigate through new friendships, experiences, neighborhoods, and an ever-changing world.