Last Tang Standing: The most hilarious, feel-good debut romcom you’ll read all year!

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The plot at first is slow pacing for those who DNF'd a little earlier just wait until after chapter 7 (You won't regret it) and then is so fast pacing you won't stop reading. The author says this book is anti-racist because of the interracial relationships but casual racism is still racism to me. This was pitched as Bridget Jones Diary meets Crazy Rich Asians and I would definitely have to agree with that sentiment. Andrea’s nuclear family stands out from her wealthy extended family because her father is dead, and her mother’s upper middle-class income meant they sometimes relied on their relatives for big purchases. The MC has a sister who is with a Muslim man and the mother is ignoring her child because she disagrees with his lifestyle.

I'm glad that Lauren gives her a strong character instead of the typical messed-up, deeply troubled, or 'don't understand what is going on in her life' personality. Family will always come first especially the expectations of parents, that a slight mistake may just make you a disappointment and you truly have to fight for what you love. None of this gets resolved until nearly the last page of the book, and I use the word resolved very loosely. And, may I add, this was something else that wasn’t challenged or even acknowledged as being fucking abhorrent.Again, I’m no stranger to contemporary Asian romances and this fact that Asian families, particularly East Asian families do not want racial mixing, especially with Muslim people. Laura Jane Williams, bestselling author of Our Stop 'Both joyfully entertaining and socially perceptive, Lauren Ho's debut is a vivid read on dating, work and family in Singapore through the lens of a brutally honest protagonist of gold. The tagline of "Crazy Rich Asians" meets "Bridget Jones's Diary" perfectly captures the essence of this book.

Andrea Tang comes from an upcoming and upscale family who were born and raised in Malaysia but later on studied abroad and eventually settles in Singapore to be a very successful lawyer. said the woman who once told me to drop a boyfriend in college because he was “only a biology undergrad.There were heartfelt moments where I actually shed some tears, especially when the characters started to show their supports to one another. If a reader is troubled or hurt by what they’ve read then they should be able to say so without an author writing a whole goddamn blog post in response. Told in diary form, we see Andrea’s at times self-destructive life as she attempts to balance work and her love life. Many Asian authors seem content, they’ll mention that racism is bad and use over the top racism to show that the MC isn’t like their families but there are rarely consequences for it.

You’ll fall in love with this warm, witty and winning tale of a woman learning to follow her heart–not her head–for the first time in her life!I usually adore difficult heroines, but Andrea is frustrating because she can’t decide whether to take care of herself or wait in a state of not-taking-care-of-herself for someone else to show up and manage her life for her. i've been on the hunt for stories that do not position or define BIPOC experiences in relation to whiteness - that is, stories featuring 1) mostly or only BIPOC characters, 2) nuances (e. For fans of Crazy Rich Asians and Bridget Jones’s Diary comes a hilarious story of love, friendship and the most intrusive people in the world: family.

Because if you do, if you are lured by their flat bellies and full hairlines, you will live to regret it. For fans of Crazy Rich Asians and Bridget Jones's Diary comes a hilarious story of love, friendship and the most intrusive people in the world: family. LAST TANG STANDING is a hilarious transcontinental romp filled with characters that crackle off the page. Malaysian born-and-raised Andrea Tang is a successful lawyer and has broken up with a boyfriend who had been tagged as an approved can-be-a-husband by the Asian family. I loved them and the story so much that I only took one break (to sleep) before quickly picking it up again and finishing it.Part of the humor of the story is that the reader is aware of the romantic undercurrents between Andrea and Suresh, while she remains oblivious. This was a fun read about thirty-three year old Andrea Tang, a Chinese- Malaysian living in Singapore as a successful lawyer. Usually I hate those X meets Y-type blurbs but CRAZY RICH ASIANS meets BRIDGET JONES is pretty on the mark for LAST TANG STANDING. Last Tang Standing is a fun, funny, addictive adventure starring a loveable heroine with impeccable taste in handbags (if not men).