Last Tang Standing

416 pages

English language

Published Aug. 31, 2020 by HarperCollins Publishers Limited.

ISBN:
978-0-00-840007-1
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I struggled with this on a number of levels. First, just in my own life, I'm less interested in a book where the entire plot is a woman trying to find a husband, and that's what it seemed like this book was going to be about based on the first couple of chapters. Eventually, the book became more about Andrea's growth as a person, but the initial conceit of "I'm old and the last one to get married in my family" couldn't be less appealing to me and I almost stopped reading because of it. Which is unfortunate, because I really wanted to give this book, with a Chinese MC living in Singapore, a chance. The fact that there were essentially no white people in this book was a plus, so I soldiered on, even though I ultimately think the book was too long by about 100 pages.

Again, if …