Rental House
Weike Wang
2024
Penguin Random House
“One of the most nuanced, astute critiques of America now I’ve read in years. And it’s also frequently hilarious…[Wang] is at her most poignant and penetrating. She’s cast her lens, with immense empathy, on how divisiveness has hardened our desolation and made us more desirous than ever of a connection we rarely feel. She’s done what only great fiction writers can do.”—Los Angeles Times
“Wang paints an elegantly off-kilter portrait of partnership and its isolations, and of the ungainly, imperfect intimacy of family.”—The New York Times
“Blazingly insightful, Weike Wang’s Rental House is a pitch-perfect send-up of all the ways we humans can misunderstand or unintentionally (sometimes intentionally) wound our loved ones and drive each other crazy…[For] basically anyone who is breathing, Rental House is a must-read.”—San Francisco Chronicle