Counterfeit: A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick and New York Times BESTSELLER - the most exciting and addictive heist novel you’ll read this summer!

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The last part dragged out a little with a super speedy epilogue, but this would be a good holiday or midweek read. I’ve actually been to Guangzhou for a work trip and I remember people telling me I should check out one of those markets. She needs someone with Ava’s background and despite her initial reservations, Ava eventually agrees to join in. It’s funny because going into the novel, I thought about how I’m not caught up in expensive purses anymore.

It’s also a story of model minority syndrome interlaced with a larger conversation about what it means to be successful in this system. As a strait-laced, rule-abiding Chinese American lawyer with a successful surgeon as a husband, a young son, and a beautiful home--she's built the perfect life. If you appreciate a good caper, you’ll want to pick up Kirstin Chen’s novel about two Asian American women who turn a counterfeit handbag scheme into a big business. Winnie asks Ava for a favour involving her counterfeit luxury handbag trade, but soon the “favours” turn more frequent and Ava finds herself caught in the shady activities. I hope to introduce new features during 2022 and join the Bookstagram community on Instagram properly, so come and follow me there too!

I’ve also noticed that I tend to independently pick up good to read that Roxane Gay has reviewed – who knows, we could all be best book buds! Written in an almost, but not quite, stream-of-consciousness style, Part I unfolds from the perspective of Ava Wong. Her boss in China, a very powerful man, needs to have a life-saving surgery and would like to have it in the United States.

I think disturbing true crime stories are having a pause in popularity and people are more engaged with scam artist tales told from an entertaining point of view.Winnie has developed an ingenious counterfeit scheme, and now she needs someone with a US passport to help manage her business – someone who’d never be suspected of wrongdoing, someone like Ava.