A funny and smart novel full of Witt and humour

I really enjoyed this book

Thank you Netgalley for a copy for an honest review

Not my usual sort of read, although it kept me entertained and the characters were strong enough to carry the slightly bonkers story to the end!

I think this book will be fairly divisive.

Some readers will find it hilarious while others will be frustrated with the multiple languages and lack of translation (it was pretty clunky at times).

Overall, it's a tale of family life - good and bad - and an exploration of the strength and experiences of immigrants.

A completely hilarious story about the escapades of a dysfunctional family. This is one occasion when you can believe all the hype. Fab read.

As a teenager I loved the National Lampoon Vacation series and I think that's why I loved TWVTW so very much! I found it absolutely hilarious and I found the characters - each more obnoxious than the rest - horrifyingly compelling. Reviewers who have complained about the family members being hard to like are definitely missing the point here as we aren't meant to like them - just find their trials and tribulations outrageously funny as they wind their way across the country. As an insight into the immigrant experience od modern America it was also pretty revealing - perhaps even more so since Trump's victory. Perhaps not for everyone, but I thought that Charles & Barbra were great characters who will stay with me for a long tome after reading about their travels.

This book that released in 2016 is considered a fine one under the category of humor. Set in America it is the story of the Wangs - Asian immigrants who make it big in the cosmetic industry and the economic crisis sends them back to rags... Charles Wangs is the successful businessman who risks it all and has now lost it . He pulls his son and daughter out of school and does a cross country road trip with the children and his second wife to the oldest daughter's home. He is determined to go back to China and repossess his family inheritance and start afresh. The situation itself is the kind that is sad, but you can't help but laugh at the helplessness of it.
The book is painfully long with flat attempts at being funny , there are countable number of satires and funny moments ! Cliché and not funny ideas like race, beauty etc are used in vain to tickle one's funny bone. The plot is slow and inconspicuous and It's like one of those under average movies that play so much on the telly that you just kinda start enjoying them 😂...trash television as we call it...
The book had a few highs- and they aren't funny either. The characters themselves are quite interesting ( not unconventional - just interesting) , and the only things that push you to read it.
Often when am reading I wonder , was it really necessary to write this book? What is it leaving me with? And for this one I can say, maybe there was absolutely no need for such a long book to be written with such little that it really has to convey