Real Americans

"This multigenerational story of identity and belonging aligns with Jenna Bush Hager's focus on compelling narratives that spark discussion among her book club members. Its exploration of family secrets and the American dream fits the kind of impactful storytelling she often champions."

"In the final third of this novel, a Chinese immigrant notes how she and her American-born roommate eat an apple differently. I attuned so closely to this observation as an American-born Chinese that I immediately shared it with my mother, who immigrated to the U.S. around the same time as the character does in the book. There are many such crystalline moments in this intergenerational saga, which also employs subtle science fiction elements in its portrait of one family’s attempts to obviate the pain of the past and set new narratives into motion."