Crazy Rich Asians

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2013 by Kevin Kwan

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.

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Grateful acknowledgment is made to Kurt Kaiser for permission to reprint an excerpt from the song “Pass It On” from Tell It Like It Is. Reprinted by permission of the artist.

Part opening illustration by Alice Tait

Jacket design by Ben Wiseman

Jacket photograph © adrisbow/Flickr/Getty Images

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Kwan, Kevin.

Crazy rich Asians / Kevin Kwan. — 1st ed.

p. cm.

1. Fiancés — Fiction. 2. Fiancées — Fiction. 3. Americans — Singapore — Fiction. 4. Rich people — Fiction. 5. Social conflict — Fiction. 6. Domestic fiction. I. Title.

PS3611.W36C73 2013

813′.6—dc23 2012032395

eISBN: 978-0-385-53698-1

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