A woman meets her boyfriend’s family in Singapore and discovers he has not mentioned that they are among the wealthiest families in Asia.
The footnotes are the best part. Asides about dialect, family politics and the difference between old money and new, which do more world-building than the plot does.
It is soap opera and does not pretend otherwise. What raises it is that the snobbery is specific rather than generic, and the book is interested in the hierarchy rather than just the spending.
Read September 2016.