Ava‘s life hasn’t panned out the way she hopes and she’s dazzled by the wealth, beauty and confidence Winnie displays. 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.

This book was a massive disappointment for me, especially after hearing a lot of good news about it. I really enjoyed this fun, smart book about two women who create a business counterfeiting designer handbags.

However, Winnie never stayed to complete her education and disappeared under a cloud of controversy. Ava Wong appears to have it all: a high-flying career as a lawyer, a surgeon as a husband and a beautiful little toddler with whom she is currently staying at home. I have been reading about the verbal battle regarding exotic writing between Arundhati Roy and Salman Rushdie in the book Joseph Anton: A Memoir.

The New York Times best-selling author of three books, Soy Sauce for Beginners, Bury What We Cannot Take and Counterfeit, Kirstin was born and raised in Singapore, lives in New York, and holds an MFA from Emerson College.

If you are the publisher or author and feel that they do not properly reflect the range of media opinion now available, send us a message with the mainstream reviews that you would like to see added. I loved the main character development (though you need to have a lot of patience to discover the development.