‘Real Americans’ explores the pressure to be exceptional
by Heller McAlpin
Apr 29, 2024
3 minutes
Who are we? How do we decide what’s important to us – and become who we are? What’s a “real” American?
These are some of the questions Rachel Khong probes in “Real Americans,” her riveting, multi-generational saga about class, race, genetics, values, and ambition. “Real Americans” is Khong’s sophomore novel – following her heartwarming 2017 debut, “Goodbye, Vitamin” – but it reads as if she skipped right to postdoc-level work.
Khong is hardly the first writer to broach
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