Counterfeit: A Reese's Book Club Pick

by Kirstin Chen

• ISBN10: 006326899X
• ISBN13: 9780063268999
• Publish Date: 7 June 2022
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Imprint: Collins
• Edition: Large type / large print edition
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 336
• Language: English

Reviews

[layawaydragon]

Amazing. Immediately engaging and didn't want to put it down. Love the unreliable narrator being subtle and not extreme. Best book I've read this year, so far. Great writing, compelling characters. Felt like a real adventure. It was so fun to read.

[bookstagramofmine]

Counterfeit by Kirstin Chen came out on the 7th of June and was published by William Morrow. It's barely been two months, and the book already has over sixteen thousand reviews on Goodreads, and is in the top 10 in two categories on amazon. It's 284 pages long and while normally I complain that a book should be longer or shorter, I can't with this one because it's just perfect. It's also not a debut as the author has written other novels such as Bury What We Cannot Take and Soy Sauce for Beginners, both of which are on Kindle Unlimited. This book is perfect for readers who liked Bad Blood, and shows like Inventing Anna!

 

When Ava reconnects with her old college roommate Winnie, literally not one person could have predicted the outcome; that the two of them would run a counterfeit scheme involving replicas of luxury handbags.

 

I won't argue that the book is perfect. It absolutely isn't! But amidst all the garbage that seems to get published, it's good to come across an author who can write something interesting, while still addressing more complex topics such as how the Asian American community is viewed in the United States and how quickly the model migrant narrative can change when profits are threatened. I absolutely hated Ava's husband and his white boy obliviousness to everything. I adore Winnie and the guts she had to pull all of this off.