Each ticket ($30) includes event a dmission\, a copy of \;Lies and Weddings\, and a donation to the Cuyahoga County Public Library Foundation.
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About the author: \;
\nKevin Kw an is the author of the international bestsellers \;Crazy Rich Asians\, China Rich Girlfriend\, \;and \;R ich People Prob\;lems. Crazy Rich Asians \;was a num ber one \;New York Times \;bestseller and major motion pi cture and has been translated into forty languages. In 2018\, Kevin was na med by \;Time \;magazine as one of the one hundred most i nfluential people in the world.
\nLies and Weddings is a big\, juicy\, addictive novel full of all the things we exp ect from the undisputed king of escapist fiction&mdash\;and it&rsquo\;s ab solutely his best yet! Rufus Leung Gresham\, future Earl of Greshambury an d son of a former Hong Kong supermodel has a problem: the legendary Gresha m Trust has been depleted by decades of profligate spending\, and behind a ll the magazine covers and Instagram stories manors and yachts lies nothin g more than a gargantuan mountain of debt. The only solution\, put forth b y Rufus&rsquo\;s scheming mother\, is for Rufus to attend his sister&rsquo \;s wedding at a luxury eco-resort\, a veritable who&rsquo\;s-who of sulta ns\, barons\, and oligarchs\, and seduce a woman with money. Should he mar ry Solè\;ne de Courcy\, a French hotel heiress with honey blond tres ses and a royal bloodline? Should he pursue Martha Dung\, the tattooed ven ture capital genius who passes out billions like lollipops? Or should he f ollow his heart\, betray his family\, squander his legacy\, and finally co nfess his love to the literal girl next door\, the humble daughter of a do ctor\, Eden Tong? When a volcanic eruption burns through the nuptials and a hot mic exposes a secret tryst\, the Gresham family plans&mdash\;and the ir reputation&mdash\;go up in flames. Can the once-great dukedom rise from the ashes? Or will a secret tragedy\, hidden for two decades\, reveal a s hocking twist?
\nIn a globetrotting tale that takes us from the blac
k sand beaches of Hawaii to the skies of Marrakech\, from the glitzy bache
lor pads of Los Angeles to the inner sanctums of England&rsquo\;s oldest f
amily estates\, Kevin Kwan unfurls a juicy\, hilarious\, sophisticated and
thrillingly plotted story of love\, money\, murder\, sex\, and the lies w
e tell about them all.
Kevin Kwan will be in conversation with
Lisa Chiu\, who joined the Literary Cleveland board in Ja
nuary 2019 and serves on the membership and development committees. Her wr
iting has appeared in \;McSweeney's Internet Tendency\, \
;People\, Ohio Magazine\, \;the Plain Dealer\, \;the Mercury News\, and several anthologies. She writes
about family\, food\, culture and community and is working on a memoir\, <
em>Hungry Ghost. \;
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