“Real Americans” is a sweeping, multigenerational novel about a Chinese American family. It is divided into three sections, each narrated by a different family member. The first is Lily, the American daughter of Chinese immigrants. The second, her biracial son, Nick. The third, her Chinese-born mother, a brilliant scientist.
In 2017 Rachel Khong wrote a slender, darkly comic novel, “Goodbye, Vitamin,” that picked up a number of accolades and was optioned for a film. Now she has followed up her debut effort with a sweeping, multigenerational saga that is twice as long and very serious.
The novel is narrated by three members of the same family: May, the Chinese-born matriarch; her American daughter, Lily; and Lily’s biracial son, Nick. It opens in 1999, when 22-year-old Lily is working as an unpaid intern at a media company, a few months away from her NYU graduation. Wondering why he does not, as his best friend says, “look Chinese,” the two of them search an online genetic database and find Matthew, his long-lost white father. Nick’s subsequent decision to go to Yale sets up a series of dramatic encounters on the east coast with the dad he never knew.
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