A wife and husband deal — or not — with tensions and conflicts from each spouse's parents while on vacation. NPR's Scott Simon talks with Weike Wang about her new novel, "Rental House." There's a ...

Rental House, a novel of marriage and manners, tries to make sense of how a blended family negotiates conflicts of race and class. Near the beginning of Weike Wang’s first novel, Chemistry, an unnamed ...

The acronym DINK (double income, no kids) has been around since neoliberalism first took root in the United States, during the Reagan years. It resurfaces now and then, as a term for an enviable ...

When it comes right down to it, I think some novelists just have the juice. Three novels into what I’m hoping is a long career, I’m ready to declare that Weike Wang has the juice. With her new book, ...

What began as a mentor-mentee relationship between the writers has become more “equal” and “relaxed.” From left: Weike Wang, 33, writer, “Joan Is Okay” (2022), a novel, and Sigrid Nunez, 72, writer, ...

Debut author Weike Wang has a lot to celebrate — even if you don’t include her recent PEN/Hemingway Award win (which recognizes a distinguished first book of fiction and comes with a sizable $25,000 ...

There's a scene that might resonate this week - a woman sits around a campfire with her husband, Nate, and her in-laws at a rental house on Cape Cod. It's several days into their togetherness when all ...