Heather Eng is a third-generation Chinese American who grew up in Queens, New York. A lifelong writer, she graduated from Boston University with a journalism degree, and worked as a newspaper journalist, web editor, and senior marketing leader in the tech industry.
Eng lives in Manhattan with her husband and daughter.
Double Happiness is her first novel.
At Lit Hub the author tagged six titles about the American Dream and social striving, including:
Susie Yang, White IvyRead about the other entries on the list at Lit Hub.
People assume Ivy Lin is a quiet, obedient, young Chinese American woman. But that’s the problem with conflating stereotypes with reality: thetruth is much more complex. In White Ivy, Ivy Lin is actually a dogged social climber who becomes infatuated with Gideon Speyer, a wealthy former classmate from an old-moneyed Boston family. Over fancy brunches and Cape Cod vacations, Ivy gradually integrates herself into the Speyer clan. But just when Ivy is on the brink of becoming Mrs. Gideon Speyer, an old flame from her working-class past threatens to dismantle the new life she’s created.I tore through this novel. Yang smashes the model minority stereotype by creating a deeply flawed antihero and deliciously twisty tale.
White Ivy is among Robyn Harding's seven top unlikely friendships in crime fiction and Rebecca Kelley's nine titles featuring female villains who lean into their wickedness.
--Marshal Zeringue
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