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Rachel Khong’s ‘Real Americans’

Rachel Khong’s ‘Real Americans’

Update: 2024-07-12
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Lily Chen is not endowed with good fortune — despite the fact that her scientist mother managed to grow a backyard of four-leaf clovers. She doesn’t win raffles or lotteries. She scrapes out a meager living as an unpaid intern with the hopes that it might give her a shot at an entry-level gig.


In short: Not lucky.


But then a chance encounter upends her life and changes her idea of what fortune really is.


Rachel Khong’s new book, “Real Americans,” is already a New York Times bestseller and one of the hottest novels of the summer. She joins MPR News host Kerri Miller on this week’s Big Books and Bold Ideas to talk about teasing out the truth between luck and choice, soul mates and chance.

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Rachel Khong’s ‘Real Americans’

Rachel Khong’s ‘Real Americans’

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