They didn’t really place much of a pressure or expection on what their kids should be doing,” he said. I’m still the loser cousin, you know?” he jokes.īut Kevin’s parents, he said, don’t subscribe to the stereotypical “Asian” directive that, as described in Crazy Rich Asians, “the only acceptable majors were medicine or law.” “My parents were very different from the parents of their generation. “From my extended family, there is still puzzlement as like, ‘What exactly does Kevin really do? Kevin’s been unemplyed for the last 20 years,’ you know what I mean? And even now I’ve written a book, there’s no recognition, they don’t get it. And he didn’t exactly follow the traditional path described there, either, choosing to study creative writing. Kevin is a lot more down-to-earth than the extravagant characters he describes in his books. But was there crazy bling? No, not really, no,” he clarified.

“B ut then only after you leave or when you’re older do you realize that oh wow, it special, it was kind of privileged in a way. You know as a kid you don’t really understand what’s happening and how important some people are that you’re related to.

“We would go to dinner and the Prime Minsister would be there. It was only after I left I realized that it was kind of normal and yet it was abnormal at the same time,” Kevin told Rappler. Catch the full story later on /entertainmentĪ photo posted by Rappler on at 3:40am PDT Rappler's and chat with #crazyrichasians and #crazyrichgirlfriend author who's in Manila to meet his fans.

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