Next Time Will Be Our Turn
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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.
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Bitter sweet
Ein wirklich schönes Buch. Die Erzählweise hat mir nicht ganz zugesagt, kein Gespräch zwischen Oma und Enkelin wäre in dieser Form abgelaufen. Außerdem hab ich mich schwer getan mit den Jahreszahlen. Die Geschichte war gefühlt mehr in den 50er 60er Jahren angesiedelt als in den 2010ern. Das war aber bestimmt auch so gewollt.
Description
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.
Book Information
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Bitter sweet
Ein wirklich schönes Buch. Die Erzählweise hat mir nicht ganz zugesagt, kein Gespräch zwischen Oma und Enkelin wäre in dieser Form abgelaufen. Außerdem hab ich mich schwer getan mit den Jahreszahlen. Die Geschichte war gefühlt mehr in den 50er 60er Jahren angesiedelt als in den 2010ern. Das war aber bestimmt auch so gewollt.