HYBRID: Afternoon Book Discussion: Rental House
HYBRID: Afternoon Book Discussion: Rental House
This month's book is Rental House by Weike Wang. You can request a copy of the book from the library catalog.
About the book:
From the award-winning author of Chemistry, a sharp-witted, insightful novel about a marriage as seen through the lens of two family vacations.
Keru and Nate are college sweethearts who marry despite their family differences: Keru’s strict, Chinese, immigrant parents demand perfection (“To use a dishwasher is to admit defeat,” says her father), while Nate’s rural, white, working-class family distrusts his intellectual ambitions and his “foreign” wife. Some years into their marriage, the couple invites their families on vacation. At a Cape Cod beach house, and later at a luxury Catskills bungalow, Keru, Nate, and their giant sheepdog navigate visits from in-laws and unexpected guests, all while wondering if they have what it takes to answer the big questions: How do you cope when your spouse and your family of origin clash? How many people (and dogs) make a family? And when the pack starts to disintegrate, what can you do to shepherd everyone back together?
This is a hybrid meeting -- so you can either join us on Zoom or in the Watson Room this month!
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- Date:
- Friday, December 19, 2025 Show more dates
- Time:
- 1:00pm - 2:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Watson Room
- Categories:
- Adult Events Book Discussions Recurring Events Virtual
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