The Wangs vs. the World (original) (raw)

The Wangs vs. the World is the debut comic novel by Jade Chang, published in 2016. The novel chronicles the cross-country road trip of Chinese/Taiwanese immigrant Charles Wang and his family to his eldest daughter's house after Wang's bankruptcy in the wake of the financial crisis of 2007–2008. As common to immigrant families, dialogue between family members is conducted in a mix of the adopted country's language (English) and native tongue (Mandarin Chinese, romanized for print but otherwise untranslated).