The Fortunes of Jaded Women by Carolyn Huynh

橙县小西贡的每个人都知道，Duong姐妹被诅咒了。

这要从她们的祖先Oanh说起，Oanh敢于为了真爱离开她的婚姻，所以一个可怕的越南女巫诅咒Oanh和她的后代，使他们永远找不到爱情和幸福，Duong妇女将生下女儿，而不是儿子。

Oanh现在的后裔Mai Nguyen非常了解这个诅咒。她已经离婚，在十年前的一次爆炸性分歧之后，她与她的妹妹Minh Pham（中间的和调解人）和Khuyen Lam（最小的，她发誓她只是经营简陋的咖啡店和美甲店，而不是小西贡的地下世界）疏远了。尽管Mai的三个成年女儿Priscilla、Thuy和Thao在事业上都很成功（其中一个是John Cho的皮肤科医生！），但她们的爱情生活却不是这样的。Mai确信他们可能会使她早早地进入坟墓。

在绝望中，她咨询了她在夏威夷信任的通灵师华姨，华姨给出了一个意想不到的预言：今年，她的家人将见证一场婚姻、一场葬礼和一个儿子的诞生。这个预言将使疏远的母亲、女儿、姑姑和表兄弟重新团聚–无论好坏。

这是一部充满轻松和坦率的多线叙事小说，讲述了作为一个家庭的哀悼、干涉、庆祝和愈合。它展示了越南妇女是如何取得胜利的，即使全世界都在反对她们。

Everyone in Orange County’s Little Saigon knew that the Duong sisters were cursed.

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.

Oanh’s current descendant Mai Nguyen knows this curse well. 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). 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 life. Mai is convinced they might drive her to an early grave.

Desperate 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. This prophecy will reunite estranged mothers, daughters, aunts, and cousins—for better or for worse.

A multi-narrative novel brimming with levity and candor, The Fortunes of Jaded Women is about mourning, meddling, celebrating, and healing together as a family. It shows how Vietnamese women emerge victorious, even if the world is against them.