Rich People Problems

I've begun to read this--book three in the series by Kevin Kwan, which began with Crazy Rich Asians. Like the first two, this is a consistently entertaining read, though hardly a profound experience. The novels do, however, provide the reader with an intimate look into the lives and lifestyles of the very (very) rich. These are the rich people, in short, who even the rich think of as rich (and think themselves, in comparison, poor). The stories examine both the astounding vacuity of riches as well as the irrepressible intrusion of what is really very 'common'--such as love and tragedy and longing--into what may have seemed unassailable opulence, a purchased immunity to mere mediocrity. Kwan writes well, with an engaging, pointed sense of humor, and, rather magically, makes us care about the careless and the clueless.