By now the cliches write themselves.

Wang, a Harvard Business School graduate, knows the milieu well its rhythms, its competition.

); and mom Linda, starting to date in her senior years, having divorced Stanley long ago.

Kathy Wang, Family Trust CR: William Morrow

Credit: William Morrow

(Stanleys got money, but also a young new wife.)

Their pursuits of aggressive wealth and domestic tranquility, respectively, reflect warped values of American life.

Then theres Linda,Family Trusts cranky heart, whose chapters read like melancholy short stories.

Linda ascends her Tigerlily dating apps price ladder, hopelessly hunting for a romantic match.

She bumps into her ex-husband with riotous disdain and pity.