I wanted to do something tonally different, a relief from this big, heavy family story. This new book continues with Sex and Vanity’s theme of Asian characters outside of Asia. When I was thinking about what the whole trilogy would be, for lack of a better metaphor, I thought of a Chanel bottle: New York, London, Paris. This time they’re in England. I’m taking that traditional English country manor novel, sort of a Jane Austen world, and turning it on its head.
― Kevin Kwan, Hollywood Reporter
What booksellers are saying about Lies and Weddings
- Lies and Weddings is everything I was hoping it would be (and more): The footnotes (I’m here for all of them), the unlikeable matriarch (all those unachievable expectations), the commentary on excess (wealth, debt, drugs), and of course the love story (or, really, stories). A must add to your summer TBR!
― Jenny Gilroy, E. Shaver, Bookseller in Savannah, GA | BUY
- Crazy Rich Asians author Kevin Kwan has outdone himself! Posh parties, fashions, cars, architecture and food set the scene while a family of British nobles is trying to remedy failing finances by arranging a family marriage to “new money” Asians of wealth and in doing so fall head-first into an intriguing mystery. A fun escapist read. Hilarious dialogue and family dynamics!
― Patience Allan-Glick at Hills & Hamlets Bookshop, Chattahoochee Hills, GA | BUY
- Kevin Kwan’s newest book returns to the kind of love story that captured our hearts in Crazy Rich Asians. A little bit of Cinderella, a little bit of Mansfield Park (Kwan always reminds of me Austen at her satirical best), this book takes a classic friends-to-lovers story but sets it across the globe in the must luxurious, most ridiculous settings from England to LA to Morocco to Hawai’i (with a volcanic eruption, no less). A page-turning rollicking delight!
― Kate Storhoff, Bookmarks, Winston-Salem, NC | BUY
- What a FUN read! Full of drama that is definitely reminiscent of Crazy Rich Asians but updated for today’s social climate. I enjoyed the storyline, following a man who wants what the heart wants and a mother who wants status instead. This was an EXCELLENT book to get lost in, I ate chunks of the day and didn’t realize how much time had past! Overall, if you like a little romance with a a LOT of money, societal discord and familial drama, this right here just might be your jam.
― Deziree Bunn, Book No Further in Roanoke, VA | BUY
About Kevin Kwan
Kevin Kwan is the author of the international bestsellers Crazy Rich Asians, China Rich Girlfriend, and Rich People Problems. Crazy Rich Asians was a number one New York Times bestseller and major motion picture and has been translated into forty languages. In 2018, Kevin was named by Time magazine as one of the one hundred most influential people in the world.
