Lauren Ho’s irresistible LAST TANG STANDING sparkles with that perfect match of hilarity and heart on every page … You’ll fall in love with this warm, witty and winning tale.

Hailing from sunny Malaysia, she lived in the United Kingdom, France and Luxembourg before moving with her family to Singapore, where she is ostensibly working on her next novel.Crazy Rich Asians meets Bridget Jones’s Diary in this funny and irresistible debut novel about the pursuit of happiness, surviving one’s thirties intact, and opening oneself up to love. Andrea is quite content, thank you very much - or at least she believes she is, and she doesn't need a man to make her happy!

That said, it definitely took me roughly a quarter or even a third of the book to really sink my teeth into it; a good chunk of this novel was spent setting up a lot of characters and situations without a ton of plot (so it's around 2. I'm glad that Lauren gives her a strong character instead of the typical messed-up, deeply troubled, or 'don't understand what is going on in her life' personality. There are many books about Asian protagonists who are women and scrambling to find an impressive guy for their family with high standards. She lost all the fat and now she's thin - why doesn't she have a husband - she best get one - AND SOON.Even though there's a lot of people who are like "THE HEROINE AND HERO MUST BE EACH OTHER'S ONE AND ONLY" I'm okay with them not being that way, necessarily, as long as it feels organic and isn't done for cheating drama (I HATE pointless cheating drama, FYI). For fans of Crazy Rich Asians and Bridget Jones's Diary comes a hilarious story of love, friendship and the most intrusive people in the world: family.