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    "description": "Everyone in Orange County\u2019s Little Saigon knew that the Duong sisters were cursed.\n\nIt started with their ancestor Oanh who dared to leave her marriage for true love\u2014so 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.\u200b\n\nOanh\u2019s current descendant Mai Nguyen knows this curse well. She\u2019s divorced, and after an explosive disagreement a decade ago, she\u2019s 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\u2019s underground). Though Mai\u2019s three adult daughters, Priscilla, Thuy, and Thao, are successful in their careers (one of them is John Cho\u2019s dermatologist!), the same can\u2019t be said for their love life. Mai is convinced they might drive her to an early grave.\n\nDesperate 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\u2014for better or for worse.\n\nA 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.",
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