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I'm excited to be here today with Kathy Wong. Kathy is a graduate of UC Berkeley and Harvard

Business School. Kathy spent years working in the tech industry at Intel and Seagate before writing her first

novel, Family Trust. She currently lives with her husband and two children in the Bay Area, where she's

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Welcome to Kathy.

Thanks for coming on Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.

So Kathy, can you tell listeners what Family Trust is about?

What made you want to write this novel and what is it about?

So family trust is essentially, it's kind of like a

multi-generational family saga. It centers on an Asian American family like kind of upper middle

class in Silicon Valley. The patriarch gets a kind of terminal illness diagnosis and it kind of

follows the various players as they struggle with this diagnosis and what it means.

So there is adult children in this and who have their own lives and their own problems.

There's the first wife who kind of built up his so-called fortune with him.

And then there's his younger second wife who has been with him for some time and is, you know,

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