--Los Angeles Times"A funny, perceptive look at what it means to defy societal expectations...timeless."

--Washington Post"[For] basically anyone who is breathing, Rental House is a must-read."

--San Francisco Chronicle

"Sharp, insightful, occasionally heartbreaking, and incredibly relatable."

--Gabrielle Zevin, author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow"For anyone who's experienced demanding parents, misunderstanding in-laws, a vacation-gone-wrong, or mid-life questions about how to reconcile your own personality liabilities with those of the person you love most."

--Elif Batuman, author of The IdiotFrom the award-winning author of Chemistry, a sharp-witted, insightful novel about a marriage as seen through the lens of two family vacations

Keru and Nate first meet in college, brought together by a joke at a Halloween party (would a 'great white' costume mean dressing like a shark or a privileged Ivy League student?) and marrying a few years later. Misfits in their own families, they find in each other a feeling of home. Keru is the only child of strict, well-educated Chinese immigrant parents who hold her to impossible standards even as an adult ('To use a dishwasher is to admit defeat,' says her father). Nate is from a rural, white, working class family that has never trusted his intellectual ambitions or--now--the citizenship status of his 'foreign' wife. Nevertheless, some years into their marriage, Keru and Nate find themselves incorporating their families into two carefully planned vacations.