The sisters’ relationships with their own daughters are hardly any better.Īll this changes when Mai visits her trusted psychic adviser in Hawaii and is rocked by the revelation that this will be the year her family experiences a marriage, a funeral and the birth of a son. Despite all living in Orange County, California, sisters Mai, Minh and Khuy n haven’t spoken to one another-or to their mother-for the last 10 years. Oanh’s current living relatives are therefore able to find professional success but never lasting love. Rather than retreading the conflict that has been the focus of most Vietnam-centric literature for the past 70 years, Vietnamese American author Carolyn Huynh offers up a refreshingly buoyant and irreverent debut novel about a fiery group of estranged mothers and daughters.Įver since their ancestor Oanh left her husband for another man, the Duong women have been cursed to be unlucky in love and only give birth to daughters. A war bubbles at the core of The Fortunes of Jaded Women, but perhaps not the one you’d expect.
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