Rental House

Cover art for 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