Counterfeit

　　金錢或許買不到幸福，但可以買到高仿貨…
 
　　Ava Wong的人生一直都在打安全牌，作為一個循規蹈矩的亞裔精英律師，丈夫是成功的外科醫師，還有一個可愛的兒子，過著令人稱羨的幸福生活。然而隱藏在這個美好畫面背後的真相，只有Ava自己心裡明白。事實上她的婚姻早已分崩離析，當初毅然決然放下律師飯碗跑來當全職媽媽，卻被兒子小惡魔般的任性折磨，雇了保母喘口氣，卻好像還是什麼事都做不好。家庭事業兩頭空的結果，將她一步步推往脫軌的人生路上前進。
 
　　某天，Ava收到來自大學室友Winnie的消息，這是在Winnie因捲入SAT考試作弊風波退學後，20多年來第一次。令人意外的是，Winnie早已不是當年那個害羞、沒什麼自信、口音很重的中國女孩。她做了雙眼皮手術，提著經典款橘色柏金包，一副事業女強人的模樣。原來Winnie回中國後經營著高仿包包的買賣，而今，她需要一個擁有美國籍，並且絕對不會被懷疑有違法行為的人，協助她擴大事業。從未冒過任何風險的Ava，竟答應了Winnie一起走上這條鋼索，並重新拾回這段「友誼」。但Ava未曾預料到的，卻是Winnie即將再度消失的後果…

　　(文／博客來編譯)

　　For fans of Hustlers and How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, the story of two Asian American women who band together to grow a counterfeit handbag scheme into a global enterprise—an incisive and glittering blend of fashion, crime, and friendship from the author of Bury What We Cannot Take and Soy Sauce for Beginners.
 
　　Money can’t buy happiness… but it can buy a decent fake.
 
　　Ava Wong has always played it safe. As a strait-laced, rule-abiding Chinese American lawyer with a successful surgeon as a husband, a young son, and a beautiful home—she’s built the perfect life. But beneath this façade, Ava’s world is crumbling: her marriage is falling apart, her expensive law degree hasn’t been used in years, and her toddler’s tantrums are pushing her to the breaking point.
 
　　Enter Winnie Fang, Ava’s enigmatic college roommate from Mainland China, who abruptly dropped out under mysterious circumstances. Now, twenty years later, Winnie is looking to reconnect with her old friend. But the shy, awkward girl Ava once knew has been replaced with a confident woman of the world, dripping in luxury goods, including a coveted Birkin in classic orange. The secret to her success? Winnie has developed an ingenious counterfeit scheme that involves importing near-exact replicas of luxury handbags and now she needs someone with a U.S. passport to help manage her business—someone who’d never be suspected of wrongdoing, someone like Ava. But when their spectacular success is threatened and Winnie vanishes once again, Ava is left to face the consequences.
 
　　Swift, surprising, and sharply comic, Counterfeit is a stylish and feminist caper with a strong point of view and an axe to grind. Peering behind the curtain of the upscale designer storefronts and the Chinese factories where luxury goods are produced, Kirstin Chen interrogates the myth of the model minority through two unforgettable women determined to demand more from life.