Real Americans Mariko Tamaki which won the 2016 Pulitzer

which won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction and went on to sell over a million copies worldwide

Stranded in a strange new world

the enmity between empires doesn’t destroy them first

" Williams' notes on the various endings

Real Americans Mariko Tamaki which won the 2016 PulitzerReal Americans begins on the precipice of Y2K in New York City, when twenty two year old Lily Chen, an unpaid intern at a slick media company, meets Matthew. Matthew is everything Lily is not: easygoing and effortlessly attractive, a native East Coaster and, most notably, heir to a vast pharmaceutical empire. Lily couldn't be more different: flat broke, raised in Tampa, the only child of scientists who fled Maos Cultural Revolution. Despite all this,