The Fortunes of Jaded Women

The Fortunes of Jaded Women by Carolyn Huynh is a debut novel about a Vietnamese-American family in Orange County, California, bound by a generational curse that causes them to only have daughters and be unlucky in love. The story follows the estranged Duong sisters-Mai, Minh, and Khuyen- as a psychic's prediction of a marriage, a funeral, and a son's birth forces them to reunite and confront their family's past and present conflicts, blending humor, family drama, and magical realism.