The daughter of Vietnamese refugees, Huynh grew up in Orange County, California and currently lives in Los Angeles. It shows how Vietnamese women emerge victorious, even if the world is against them.Ĭarolyn Huynh is the author of The Fortunes of Jaded Women. This prophecy will reunite estranged mothers, daughters, aunts, and cousins-for better or for worse.Ī multi-narrative novel brimming with levity and candor, The Fortunes of Jaded Women is about mourning, meddling, celebrating, and healing together as a family. Mai is convinced they might drive her to an early grave.ĭesperate for guidance, she consults Auntie Hua, her trusted psychic in Hawaii, who delivers an unexpected prediction: this year, her family will witness a marriage, a funeral, and the birth of a son. Though Mai’s three adult daughters, Priscilla, Thuy, and Thao, are successful in their careers ( one of them is John Cho’s dermatologist!), the same can’t be said for their love lives.
She’s divorced, and after an explosive disagreement a decade ago, she’s estranged from her younger sisters, Minh Pham (the middle and the mediator) and Khuyen Lam (the youngest who swears she just runs humble coffee shops and nail salons, not Little Saigon’s underground). Oanh’s current descendant Mai Nguyen knows this curse well. ‘The Fortunes of Jaded Women’ by Carolyn Huynh is September's 'GMA' Book Club pick The book is about an estranged Vietnamese American family who believe they've been cursed by a witch, and are unable to know love or happiness. It started with their ancestor, Oanh, who dared to leave her marriage for true love-so a fearsome Vietnamese witch cursed Oanh and her descendants so that they would never find love or happiness, and the Duong women would give birth to daughters, never sons. Everyone in Orange County’s Little Saigon knew that the Duong sisters were cursed.
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