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Five-Star Stranger: A Novel

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An exciting and “inventive” (HuffPost) debut novel about a top-rated man on the Rental Stranger app—a place where users can hire a pretend fiancé, a wingman, or companion of any kind—who finds out who he is by being anyone but himself. Would you hire someone to be the best man at your wedding? Your stand-in brother? The father to your child? In an age where online ratings are all-powerful, Five-Star Stranger follows the adventures of a top-rated man on the Rental Stranger app as he navigates New York City under the guise of characters he plays, always maintaining a professional distance from his clients. But, when an eccentric patron threatens to upend his long-term role as father to a young girl, Stranger begins to reckon with his attachment to his pretend daughter, her mother, and his own fraught past. Now, he must confront the boundaries he has drawn and explore the legacy of abandonment that shaped his life. “A sharp page-turner about our culture’s commodification of everything” (Debutiful), Five-Star Stranger is a strikingly vivid novel about isolation in a hyperconnected world, and “what it means to love and be loved” (Rachel Khong, author of Real Americans). Read more

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Scribner


Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 6, 2024


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Print length ‏ : ‎ 240 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1668050145


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 49


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12 ounces


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 1 x 8.38 inches


Best Sellers Rank: #599,962 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #265 in Asian American & Pacific Islander Literature (Books) #2,869 in Family Life Fiction (Books) #8,422 in Literary Fiction (Books)


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    • Unusual book
This was an unusual book, repkete with unusual characters, happenings and more oddities than expected. There was humor, drama, uos, down and so many UNUSUAL tjings in those pages. It kept me engaged. I liked it.... It was like nothing I have read before! A short 220+ pages, it will amuse you... some of the time. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on October 7, 2024 by Jaden
    • Not my cup of tea.
An interesting concept just way too much description and logistics to keep my attention. I liked when he was playing characters but not the personal angst.
Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2025 by Amazon Customer
    • Incredible novel about loneliness and identity with a twist
Great writing lures you in with an interesting premise. This novel does that and is funny to boot. But as the novel progresses, the story becomes complex--thorny. Ultimately it raises questions that stayed with me. And much like life there's no easy answer at the end of the story, but I still felt like I had changed from reading the book and that, I think, is the sign of a great novel. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on August 19, 2024 by K.Y.T
    • Unexpected look at the gig economy
This was an unexpected story for me. I thought it was a romance, but it is definitely not. The main character is for rent! His longest job is to be a father to young Lily, who believes that he truly is her father. As the story progresses, and one of his other clients gets involved in the relationship, his job and ties to Lily are threatened. Ultimately, the man must face his responsibilities and come to grips with his relationships - with his dead mother, his absent father, and Lily. It is a strange look at jobs in a gig economy, and is based on rental family services in Japan! ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on February 19, 2025 by Rose M.
    • the writer seemed bored with her characters and settings and I quickly got bored too
I thought this was going to be an entertaining premise for spinning out a story, but it suffered in the execution. Tang put her main character in a situation that was tough to believe -- him playing a once-per-week father to a young girl, and her believing it. Don't children want to know about their families, grandparents aunts uncles, etc? And wouldn't this imposter have found it impossible to answer any detailed questions about the kid's family? I just couldn't buy it. The girl character was 8 yrs old, I think. She was in any event old enough to have wanted answers and to have not been fooled by the stranger on the app. I think this basically unbelievable set-up made Tang get quickly bored with what she had created. It was stretching credibility too far, for the sake of a story with tight seams. Anyway it really read like she was bored with it. I got no farther in than about 60 pages. Very disappointing. I gave the book to our local free library, hope someone there enjoys it more. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on September 13, 2024 by Donna K.
    • Interesting
An interesting premise but for me, it struggled to maintain momentum throughout the story. There are moments of insight that are thought provoking and sad. I received a gifted copy.
Reviewed in the United States on March 3, 2025 by lag32583
    • indescribable
When I wasn’t reading this book, I thought about this book. Absolutely beautiful, poignant and moving in every possible way
Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2025 by Amazon Customer
    • A fresh idea
This story takes us along as our narrator works as a “rental stranger” - and a very good one at that! We never learn his real name, but we know his rating - 5 stars. His gigs range from being wingman to helping a writer practice her characters to playing the father of a young girl. His clients all have different reasons for needing his service, but his reason for choosing this job is always the same - trying to atone for how he and his mother’s relationship declined before her untimely death. Throughout the story, we see the stranger start to develop more feelings than he’s let himself feel in a long time. This was such an interesting concept! If there’s not already an app for something like this, I don’t doubt that there will be at some point in our lives. I liked the narrator and thought the stream of consciousness POV worked well for the story. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on December 23, 2024 by Lauren

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