Next Time Will Be Our Turn
A grandmother tells her granddaughter about her twisty, often surprising, journey to who she is now in this sweeping love story.
1. NEXT TIME WILL BE OUR TURN by Jesse Q. Sutanto
SYNOPSIS
Izzy Chen is dreading her family’s annual Chinese New Year celebration, where they all come together at a Michelin-starred restaurant to flaunt their status and successes in hopes to one up each other. So when her seventy-three-year-old glamorous and formidable grandmother walks in with a stunning woman on her arm and kisses her in front of everyone, it shakes Izzy to her core. She’d always considered herself the black sheep of the family for harboring similar feelings to the ones her Nainai just displayed.
Seeing herself in her teenage granddaughter’s struggles with identity and acceptance, Magnolia Chen tells Izzy her own story, of how as a teen she was sent by her Indo-Chinese parents from Jakarta to Los Angeles for her education and fell in love with someone completely forbidden to her by both culture and gender norms—Ellery, an American college student who became Magnolia’s best friend and the love of her life. Stretching across decades and continents, Magnolia’s star-crossed love story reveals how life can take unexpected turns but ultimately lead you to exactly who you’re meant to be.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jesse Q. Sutanto is an author of contemporary romance.
She has a Master’s degree from Oxford University, though she has yet to figure out a way of saying that without sounding obnoxious.
When she’s not tearing out her hair over her latest WIP, she spends her time baking and playing FPS games. Oh, and also being a mom to her two kids.
Jesse grew up shuttling back and forth between Jakarta and Singapore and sees both cities as her homes. She is currently living back in Jakarta on the same street as her parents and about seven hundred meddlesome aunties.
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