Intercourse and Self-importance

The long-lasting writer of the bestselling phenomenon Loopy Wealthy Asians returns with the glittering story of a younger girl who finds herself torn between two males.

On her very first morning on the jewel-like island of Capri, Lucie Churchill units eyes on George Zao and she or he immediately can’t stand him. She will be able to’t stand it when he gallantly provides to commerce resort rooms together with her in order that she will be able to have a view of the Tyrrhenian Sea, she will be able to’t stand that he is aware of extra about Casa Malaparte than she does, and she or he actually can’t stand it when he kisses her within the darkness of the traditional ruins of a Roman villa.

The daughter of an American-born Chinese language mom and a blue-blooded New York father, Lucie has at all times sublimated the Asian aspect of herself, and she or he adamantly denies having emotions for George. However a number of years later, when George unexpectedly seems in East Hampton, the place Lucie is weekending together with her new fiancé, she finds herself drawn to him once more. Quickly, Lucie is spinning an online of deceit that includes her household, her fiancé and finally herself, as she tries to disclaim George entry into her world – and her coronary heart.

Transferring between summer time playgrounds of privilege, peppered with decadent meals and indulgent vogue, Intercourse and Self-importance is a very fashionable love story, a daring homage to A Room with a View, and a brilliantly humorous comedy of manners set between two cultures.

PEOPLE WATCHING HAS NEVER BEEN SO MUCH FUN.