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 #1 New York Times bestseller, a major motion picture, and has been translated into more than thirty languages. Sex and Vanity (Doubleday)tells the glittery tale of a young woman who finds herself torn between two men: the WASPY fiancé of her family’s dreams and George Zao, the man she is desperately trying to avoid falling in love with. Lucie Churchill, the daughter of an American-born Chinese mother and a blue-blooded New York father, has always sublimated the Asian side of herself in favor of the white side. When on her very first morning on the island of Capri she sets eyes on George Zao, she instantly can’t stand him. She can’t stand it when he gallantly offers to trade hotel rooms with her so that she can have a view of the Tyrrhenian Sea, she can’t stand that he knows more about Casa Malaparte than she does, and she really can’t stand it when he kisses her in the darkness of the ancient ruins of a Roman villa — and we are off to the races. Sex and Vanity is a truly modern love story, a daring homage to a literary classic, and a funny comedy of manners set between two cultures. Publishers Weekly called it “An intoxicating, breezy update of E.M. Forster’s A Room with a View… [A] delectable comedy of manners—the literary equivalent of white truffle and caviar pizza.”