Celebutantes by Ruthanna Khalighi-Hopper and Amanda Goldberg
Has made the New York Times Bestseller list, at #15!
Also if you have a moment do watch the four McG clips introducing the novel’s main characters on YouTube, they are hilarious.
http://www.youtube.com/Celebutantes1
This is the first one, introducing Lola Santisi… and it will lead you to the others.
Praise for Fae Ng’s STEER TOWARD ROCK
“This is an always gorgeous and often terrifying love story. It’s a poetic study of loyalty, love, loneliness, hard work, identity, immigration, and political paranoia. I sing an honor song for Fae Myenne Ng’s return with her new novel. It has already claimed a special place on my bookshelf alongside those few books that I read and read again.” —Sherman Alexie, author of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Fae Myenne Ng writes like a bebop jazzer, a Miles Davis trumpet solo, tough and trenchant; moody and poetic; erratic and explosive, with surprising lines leading to beauty and to truth. “Steer Toward Rock draws you into a family and pulls you into Chinatown, behind the glittery facades; beneath the gritty surfaces. Here’s how the people there talk, work, think, fight, and love. I feel as though I’ve just read a future classic.”
—Ben Fong Torres, author of The Rice Room, award winning (former) editor of Rolling Stone
Here is a tale about illegal aliens from China, told with their own images, idioms, and axioms—and charming humor. Theirs are rich, complex lives, traversing the worlds and interrupted by immigration laws, “laws by men that collided with laws or our ancestors.” An intriguing book most relevant now, Steer Toward Rock is a truly poetic novel.” —Maxine Hong Kingston, author of The Woman Warrior and I Love a Broad Margin to My Life.
“In Steer Toward Rock, Fae Myenne Ng confirms the extraordinary talent she displayed in BONE. She makes brilliant use of economy; her characterizations are flawless, never overdone. She creates a world of people whose lives are centered in bonds and promises, who live without great expectation but with hope and strength of will. Steer Toward Rock is richly and beautifully crafted by virtue of the author’s skill. It is a fine, rewarding novel.”—Robert Stone, author of Dog Soliders
Fae Myenne Ng has written a luminous love story . . . her protagonist Jack Szeto, beset on all sides, a stranger in a strange land, must choose between the love of his life and and the only family he has ever known. Set in a San Francisco as strange as it is quixotic and peopled with a host of heart-break characters STEER TOWARDS ROCK is a joy of a novel.”–Junot Diaz