Singapore’s most eligible bachelor, Colin Khoo, is marrying fashion icon, Araminta Lee, and everyone’s going to be there.Ĭrazy Rich Asians is just as gossipy as Austen, with the same emphasis on class, lineage, and scandal. Things kick off when Nicholas (Nick) Young, heir to the fortune of one of the wealthiest families in Asia, asks his ABC (American Born Chinese) girlfriend Rachel Chu to come to Singapore with him, to attend the wedding of the year. There’s a helpful family tree in the front to help you keep things straight, with hilarious footnotes (the footnotes continue throughout the novel, but sadly devolve into oddly patronising for-dummies translations of slang terms and descriptions of Asian cuisine). Beginning with the chapter he called “Singapore Bible Study” (“an excuse to gossip and show off new jewellery”), he eventually developed the stories into a novel.Ĭrazy Rich Asians revolves around five central characters, though the full cast is huge.
While caring for his father (who sadly passed in 2010), Kwan began writing stories to preserve the memories they shared. Kwan has said that, in writing Crazy Rich Asians, he wanted to “introduce a contemporary Asia to a North American audience” – and try to bite back your jealousy when you hear that he loosely based the novel on his own upbringing in Singapore. (I’ll earn a small commission from purchases made through these affiliate links – not enough to make me crazy rich, but it’s a start!)
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