He plans to deliver a large cosmetics order in person and take payment in cash. Charles rents a U-Haul and burgles one of his own (former) warehouses. Charles throws $75 at the headmistress and bolts with the laptop, which only confirms Grace’s suspicion that his bankruptcy is a performance. Grace is in the midst of downloading her style blog content when Charles arrives with his wife, Barbara. Meanwhile, her headmistress tries to take back her laptop, which hasn’t been paid for. Grace-at boarding school-concludes that their father is testing them. Andrew explains that it is worse than she realizes: each child has lost a trust fund worth $7 million dollars. She is distraught about their father’s bankruptcy. He is about to follow her when he receives a phone call from his sister Grace. He has just told his girlfriend, Emma, he won’t sleep with her because he doesn’t want to lose his virginity with someone he doesn’t love. Next, we meet the Wangs’ eldest son, Andrew, a student at Arizona State. Shortly after, Grayson receives a phone call from his current girlfriend, Sabrina, and he leaves as well. They are found in bed by Saina’s current boyfriend, Leo, who dumps her on the spot. As we meet her, her ex-boyfriend, an artistic luminary named Grayson, has tracked her down, looking to reconnect after his dumping her. A disgraced former art-world darling, she has retreated to a farmhouse in upstate New York. His eldest daughter, Saina, has bigger problems. The novel begins by introducing each of Charles’s children as they learn about his bankruptcy. the World was hailed by critics as a “jam-packed, high-energy debut” ( Kirkus Reviews). the World (2016), a comic novel by Chinese-American author Jade Chang, follows California businessman Charles Wang-an immigrant from China via Taiwan-as he responds to the 2008 financial crash and his own bankruptcy by gathering his family in a quixotic attempt to take them back to China to reclaim their ancestral lands.
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