Sex And Vanity: A Novel

"The settings: A lavish Capri wedding, Italian villas, mansions in the Hamptons and a mega yacht. The drama: Wall Street fortune-bearing Lucie Churchill (of yes, those Churchills) is stuck in a love triangle. As a teenager she falls for George Zao, a Chinese Australian surfer who is “not the right kind of rich.” But disaster strikes, and Lucie doesn’t see George again until years later when she’s engaged to status-obsessed, nouveau riche Cecil Pike, who has somehow been named “The Most Desired Dude On The Planet.” What’s a girl to do? This book could not possibly be written by anyone other than Kevin Kwan, author of Crazy Rich Asians, who writes about the (relatively) subdued glitz of the East Coast with as much color and verve as he does the decadent worlds of Hong Kong and Singapore. This book has almost no relationship to (the average person’s) reality, making it the perfect escape from it."