The Fortunes of Jaded Women by Carolyn Huynh

For one, within its pages the same woman dies three times and lives to tell the tales.

It is easy to understand why this page-turner of a novel is a New York Times bestseller. What follows is a tender portrait of a nontraditional. The eldest arrives with the three remaining siblings in tow and, as they work to clean up Dimple’s colossal mess, they unexpectedly get to know each other along the way. But all that changes one night when Dimple, with no one else to turn to, sends an SOS call to her older sister after a dramatic, almost inconceivable event between her and her wayward boyfriend. Samantha LadwigĬandice Carty-Williams keeps it all in the family in her highly anticipated sophomore novel, a dark comedy whose threads are woven together by a vibrant cast of characters so different from one another, you’d never suspect they were related-and neither would they.Despite sharing an absent father, 30-year-old Dimple Pennington and her four other siblings have spent very little time together. With each effort, though, they ostracize themselves from the very people they wish to be close to.The Fortunes of Jaded Women is a hilarious and heartfelt story about a fractured family finding its way back to each other. The curse? That no Duong ever experience true love or happiness, and that the women for generations to follow onlybirth daughters, making it impossible for their ancestors to visit their home in the afterlife.From the Hoàng Liên SơnMountains to Orange County’s Little Saigon, we follow the Duong family as they try to make do with the curse they can’t seem to shake, no matter how many medicines they consume and psychics they visit. And so she sought the aid of a fearsome witch to ensure that Oanh suffered for her shameful choice. Long ago, their ancestor Oanh left her marriage for true love, a brave and unconventional decision that her mother-in-law wasn’t going to let her get away with.

At its heart, Carolyn Huynh’s debut novel is a love story-because love is the reason the entire Duong family is cursed.

The Fortunes of Jaded Women by Carolyn Huynh