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The iconic author of the bestselling phenomenon Crazy Rich Asians returns with a glittering tale of love and longing as a young woman finds herself torn between two worlds \\u2013 the WASP establishment of her father\\u2019s family and George Zao, a man she is desperately trying to avoid falling in love with.

On her very fist morning on the jewel-like island of Capri, Lucie Churchill sets eyes on George Zao, and she instantly can\\u2019t stand him. She can\\u2019t stand it when he gallantly offers to trade hotel rooms with her so that she can have a view of the Tyrrhenian Sea, she can\\u2019t stand that he knows more about Casa Malaparte than she does, and she really can\\u2019t stand it when he kisses her in the darkness of the ancient ruins of a Roman villa and they are caught by her snobbish, disapproving cousin Charlotte. \\u201cYour mother is Chinese so it\\u2019s no surprise you\\u2019d be attracted to someone like him,\\u201d Charlotte teases.

The daughter of an American-born Chinese mother and blue-blooded New York father, Lucie has always sublimated the Asian side of herself in favor of the white side, and she adamantly denies having feelings for George. But several years later, when George unexpectedly appears in East Hampton, where Lucie is weekending with her new fianc\\xe9, she finds herself drawn to George again. Soon, Lucie is spinning a web of deceit that involves her family, her fianc\\xe9, the co-op board of her Fifth Avenue apartment building, and ultimately herself as she tries mightily to deny George entry into her world \\u2013 and her heart.

Moving among summer playgrounds of privilege, peppered with decadent food and extravagant fashion, SEX AND VANITY (Doubleday)is a truly modern love story, a daring homage to A Room with a View, and a brilliantly funny comedy of manners set between two cultures.