Designer diamonds, luxury yachts and hallucinogenic toads all feature in Kevin Kwan’s latest novel
It’s midnight in LA, where Kevin Kwan lives, but this is his preferred time for a phone call. “I’m a night bird,” he says. “If I was doing an interview at 8am, my brain would be foggy and not well-caffeinated . . . I swear to God I will be much better at midnight.” Indeed, the Singapore-born author of bestseller Crazy Rich Asians has his wits about him as he discusses his latest novel, Lies and Weddings.
Their fathers are the CEOs, studio heads or moguls and they’re wearing camouflage shorts, sneakers or those bad Adidas slides. There’s a Peter Pan syndrome thing happening here in LA.” Lies and Weddings also delivers a takedown of different LA watch tribes through wealthy heiress Daniela, who quips that “Oysters are for real estate brokers hawking overpriced houses in the Bird Streets . Nautiluses are for mid-level entertainment execs.
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