text:  Yeah, the family trees were an idea of my editor. She felt that the families and the connections were so labyrinthine. We needed to create a chart so people could keep track of things. And I'm glad we did that, because it's lovely to see, and readers have told me how much they appreciate that. So, Crazy Rich Asians really began for me as a series of short stories. I wasn't intending on writing a novel.