Author Rachel Khong joins us now. Welcome. RACHEL KHONG: Thank you so much for having me. SUMMERS: The first character that we are introduced to is Lily. And when we meet her, it is 1999 ...

It’s an unfriendly, blustery early-spring day out there in Los Angeles, but everything in here is inviting, most of all its inhabitants: the author and food journalist Rachel Khong and a sweet ...

By Robert Ito By the time Rachel Khong was finishing her latest novel, “Real Americans,” in 2022, interest in the book was so high that it sparked a 17-way bidding war between many of the ...

What is coded into our blood, passed down by the generations that came before? In Rachel Khong’s second novel, “Real Americans,” betrayals burrow down into the marrow. Using the lens of one ...

Rachel Khong’s new novel follows three generations of Chinese Americans as they all fight for self-determination in their own way. Credit...Chau Luong Supported by By Wilson Wong Wilson Wong is ...

"The trouble with beginnings is that there's no such thing," muses the narrator of Rachel Khong's debut novel Goodbye, Vitamin. "What's a beginning but an arbitrary point of entry? You begin when ...

Or is it — inevitably — the color of our skin and eyes? This concern spirals quietly, like a double helix, through Rachel Khong’s enigmatic second novel, “Real Americans.” The thing is ...

In its fourth year, the Greater Pittsburgh Festival of Books has a new home at the Carnegie Library's main branch, in Oakland ...