Kaleidoscope A Novel Cecily Wong by Cecily Wong 9780593184455, 9780593184479, 0593184459, 0593184475 instant download after payment.

Everybody’s heard of The Brightons.  

From rags to riches, sleepy Oregon to haute New York, they are the biracial Chinese American family that built Kaleidoscope, a glittering, ‘global bohemian’ shopping empire sourcing luxury goods from around the world. Statuesque, design savant, & family pet—eldest daughter Morgan Brighton is most celebrated of all. Yet despite her favored status, both within the family & in the press, nobody loves her more than Riley. Smart & nervy Riley Brighton — whose existence is forever eclipsed by her older sister’s presence. When a catastrophic event dismantles the Brightons’ world, it is Riley who’s left with questions about her family that challenge her memory, identity, & loyalty. She sets off across the globe with an unlikely companion to seek truths about the people she thought she knew best —herself included.  

Using the brightly colored, shifting mosaic patterns of a kaleidoscope as its guide, & told in arresting, addictive fragments, Kaleidoscope is at once a reckoning with one family’s flawed American Dream, & an examination of the precious bond between sisters. It reveals, too, the different kinds of love left to grow when tightly held stories are finally let go. At turns devastating & funny, warm & wise, sexy & transportive, Riley’s journey confronts the meaning of freedom & travel, youth & innocence, & what it looks like to belong, grieve, & love on one’s own terms.  

Cecily Wong wrote the novel Diamond Head, which was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, the recipient of an Elle Readers’ Prize, & voted a best debut of the Brooklyn Book Festival. Wong writes @ travel site Atlas Obscura