INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A REESE\'S Book Club Pick A con artist story, a pop-feminist caper, a fashionable romp .
Peering behind the curtain of the upscale designer storefronts and th.
Swift, surprising, and sharply comic, Counterfeit is a stylish and feminist caper with a strong point of view and an axe to grind.
But when their spectacular success is threatened and Winnie vanishes once again, Ava is left to face the consequences. passport to help manage her business--someone who\'d never be suspected of wrongdoing, someone like Ava.
The secret to her success? Winnie has developed an ingenious counterfeit scheme that involves importing near-exact replicas of luxury handbags and now she needs someone with a U.
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But the shy, awkward girl Ava once knew has been replaced with a confident woman of the world, dripping in luxury goods, including a coveted Birkin in classic orange.
Now, twenty years later, Winnie is looking to reconnect with her old friend.
Enter Winnie Fang, Ava\'s enigmatic college roommate from Mainland China, who abruptly dropped out under mysterious circumstances.
But beneath this façade, Ava\'s world is crumbling: her marriage is falling apart, her expensive law degree hasn\'t been used in years, and her toddler\'s tantrums are pushing her to the breaking point.
As a strait-laced, rule-abiding Chinese American lawyer with a successful surgeon as a husband, a young son, and a beautiful home--she\'s built the perfect life.
Ava Wong has always played it safe. but it can buy a decent fake.
Money can\'t buy happiness... -- Camille Perri, NEW YORK TIMES Book REVIEW Recommended by New York Times Book Review - Washington Post - People - Entertainment Weekly - USA Today - Time - Cosmopolitan - Today show - Harper\'s Bazaar - Vogue - Good Housekeeping - Parade - New York Post - Town & Country - GMA.com - Buzzfeed - Goodreads - Oprah Daily - Popsugar - Bustle - theSkimm - The Millions - and more! For fans of Hustlers and How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, the story of two Asian American women who band together to grow a counterfeit handbag scheme into a global enterprise--an incisive and glittering blend of fashion, crime, and friendship from the author of Bury What We Cannot Take and Soy Sauce for Beginners.
Chen is up to something innovative and subversive here. . . .
Counterfeit is an entertaining, luxurious read--but beneath its glitz and flash, it is also a shrewd deconstruction of the American dream and the myth of the model minority. . .
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A REESE\'S Book Club Pick A con artist story, a pop-feminist caper, a fashionable romp
