![]() ![]() The new year, the psychic says, will bring a wedding, a funeral, and, finally, the birth of a son, a bold prediction that scrambles the fates of this sprawling, squabbling family of women. But when a mysterious psychic tells Mai Nguyễn, the oldest, that the time has come to mend fences with her sisters, Minh Phạm and Khuyến Lâm, changes seem to be on the horizon. If they marry, their spouses will be bad husbands, and they will never have sons, an affront to tradition. ![]() Now, happiness is destined to elude them. Long ago, an ancestor named Oanh fled her marriage after falling in love with a Cambodian man, and her husband’s vengeful mother put a curse on all Oanh’s descendants. They’re also estranged-from each other, from their mother, from their grown daughters (who are well on their way to becoming estranged, too). The three Dương sisters of Orange County’s Little Saigon community have a lot in common, from a passion for knockoff Louis Vuitton bags and real jade to a distinct inability to revere their elders as much as they should. A contemporary Vietnamese American family in Southern California deals with the fallout of an ancient curse. ![]()
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