Counterfeit: A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick and New York Times BESTSELLER - the most exciting and addictive heist novel you’ll read this summer!

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i picked up this audiobook via LibroFM on a whim after seeing it as a Reese book club pick for June. Oh boy, does Eva ever get lured into a Winnie web, a con involving counterfeit designer handbags which are so good they are the creme de la creme of counterfeits they could be the real thing.

S. passport to help manage her business—someone who’d never be suspected of wrongdoing, someone like Ava. Counterfeit is fast-paced and fun, with smart commentary on the cultural differences between Asia and America. All of this aside, Counterfeit is a unique read – think high end crime meets Sex and the City meets Crazy Rich Asians.Her latest, Counterfeit, is a Reese Witherspoon book club pick, a Roxane Gay book club pick, and a New York Times Editors’ Choice. The audiobook was under 8 hours and the physical clocks in at under 300 pages, and to some that might be an indicator that the book is going to take some shortcuts and leave the reader wanting more. Ava Wong hasn’t heard from Winnie Fang for over twenty years, in fact since Winnie hurriedly left Stanford. Like Hustlers meets Crazy Rich Asians, Counterfeit is an exciting and original crime story that you’re sure to have a lot of fun with.

Kirstin’s second novel Bury What We Cannot Take, published in 2018, is set against the backdrop of early Maoist China and follows a mother, father, brother and sister as they grapple with an agonizing decision and attempt to flee mainland China. The topic the author is trying to discuss has already been discussed multiple times by other authors like Kevin Kwan. Though it must be said that at this point Chinese businesses and purchasers have beaten us at our own game.The last part dragged out a little with a super speedy epilogue, but this would be a good holiday or midweek read. For all ebook purchases, you will be prompted to create an account or login with your existing HarperCollins username and password. In this crime drama, a risk-averse former lawyer joins an elaborate fakebag scheme to finally get some thrills.

Counterfeit is a riveting and energetic novel about a world that so many of us encounter but rarely understand beyond the surface. What it ended up being, however, is exactly what I was hoping when it was first announced by Reese over on the ‘Gram. Winnie asks Ava for a favour involving her counterfeit luxury handbag trade, but soon the “favours” turn more frequent and Ava finds herself caught in the shady activities.This was a fun story from the perspectives of two very different young women and that, perhaps, is how it should be. This one is so fast-paced and bingeable that it’s already been scooped up to be turned into a TV show. Published last year by William Morrow, Counterfeit became a Reese’s Book Club Pick chosen by Reese Witherspoon, a Roxane Gay book club pick, a New York Times editors’ choice, as well as being recommended by W ashington Post and Oprah Daily, among many accolades – including being described as ‘propulsive and captivating’ by Vogue! It is the story of two ladies of Chinese ethnicity who try to fool Americans with fake luxury goods.

I’ve actually been to Guangzhou for a work trip and I remember people telling me I should check out one of those markets. It was absolutely addictive from the start, and the use of the framing device and teetering characterizations of Ava and Winnie delighted me and gave me whiplash. Yes, another scam story — Ava Wong reconnects with her college roommate, Winnie Fang, and unexpectedly joins Winnie in her counterfeit handbag scheme, going as far as traveling to China to visit business partners and the factories where their fakes are made.

Both are both books which start with well-educated women who leave the workforce to parent and become less than desirable beings as they struggle with the dissonance of having a developed brain and being expected to easily adapt to the brainless work of early stage child-rearing (they try to make it an intellectual pursuit, but its not. Now, looking back, I see all the things I got wrong, all my preconceived notions and mistaken assumptions…. Regaling the detective with her story of being at Stanford and her fobby and irritating roommate Winnie, we follow the trajectory of her life and family background, Ava’s position as a hard-working, straight laced daughter of Chinese immigrants adjusts to the ruthless business of producing, exchanging, and selling counterfeit superfake designer bags.