“Chloe Wang is nervous to introduce her parents to her boyfriend, because the truth is, she hasn’t met him yet either. She hired him from Rent for Your ’Rents, a company specializing in providing fake boyfriends trained to impress even the most traditional Asian parents.
Drew Chan’s passion is art, but after his parents cut him off for dropping out of college to pursue his dreams, he became a Rent for Your ’Rents employee to keep a roof over his head. Luckily, learning protocols like “Type C parents prefer quiet, kind, zero-PDA gestures” comes naturally to him.
When Chloe rents Drew, the mission is simple: convince her parents fake Drew is worthy of their approval so they’ll stop pressuring her to accept a proposal from Hongbo, the wealthiest (and slimiest) young bachelor in their tight-knit Asian American community.
But when Chloe starts to fall for the real Drew—who, unlike his fake persona, is definitely not ’rent-worthy—her carefully curated life begins to unravel. Can she figure out what she wants before she loses everything?” - taken from Goodreads.com
I adored this book as much as the author's previous novel, American Panda. Chloe Wang is so desperate not to return home from college for Thanksgiving without a boyfriend that she resorts to renting one. Enter struggling artist and college dropout, Drew Chan, aka Chloe/Jing Jing’s boyfriend, Andrew. The main reason Chloe has pulled out all of the stops is to keep her uber traditional Chinese parents from marrying her off to the super-rich and super self-centered Hongbo. Soon Chloe finds that her plan has worked a little too well when she realizes that she is falling for Drew, a boy who her parents would never approve of. How will Chloe keep her web of lies from unraveling?
This seems to be an authentic look into what American born Chinese children face when their new cultures and traditional parents collide. A truly great story.
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