Meeting your boyfriend’s parents is stressful enough.

But when said parents are high-flying members of the Singapore elite, who have very specific ideas about who their son’s partner should be? That’s the unenviable position Rachel Chu finds herself in when her partner Nick Young invites her to a family wedding in Kevin Kwan’s debut novel, Crazy Rich Asians.

Being touted as one of the hottest reads of the summer, Crazy Rich Asians offers a humourous peek inside the world of the Singapore super-rich: how they live, what they spend their money on, and the way they react when an outsider enters their midst. Cityline.ca caught up with Kwan in Toronto recently to talk about the book — check out the video interview below!

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