The new rich… appear everywhere. Although in the past they proliferated to a greater extent with the usual insolence of their full wallets in front of the rich consolidated of crib and complementary training (not all rich people easily learn to behave as such). Every time the dream of being new rich is reduced to more of a bizarre lottery, whether in games of chance, in the company that ends up succeeding, or in the fly of a lifetime.
On this occasion we address the casuistry of the fly, of the meeting between the young proletarian Rachel Chu (a woman, in this case), and her wealthy but restrained boyfriend Nicholas Young.
The two share their dating days in the city of anonymity par excellence, New York. And that is where Nicholas can go through one more, interact as one more and make Rachel fall in love as one more, with that necessary certainty that awakens in some extremely realistic rich people. The need to know that those around them are not there to take advantage of them.
Of course, in the end everything is known. When Nicholas and Rachel travel to Singapore for the typical bride-to-groom presentation, Rachel discovers that her boyfriend's family has money to bore.
And that is where she must begin that learning process of every new rich man, with its setbacks, its falsehoods, its consumer gaps, its eccentricities and a whole amalgam of follies in which Rachel is introduced into the peculiar fauna of the most imposing capitalism, just the one her boyfriend Nicholas seemed to want to run away from when he set out for New York.
Between satire and comedy, the novel takes that flight full of humor over a patina of tragic emptiness of the material. Between parties, uncontrolled shopping, laughter and good vibes, Rachel and Nicholas must nevertheless fight against the obstacles that are emerging and that seem to lead to the failure of their relationship. Because perhaps not all the boy's relatives are very satisfied with the chosen one ...
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