Told in third person, each chapter shares a perspective from one woman in the family, showing what their current life looks like and how their strained relationships to each other have affected it. Naturally, there is a funeral, a birth, and a wedding however, they do not play out in the ways imagined. Thus begins the difficult path of Mai’s reconciliation. But what makes this prediction bittersweet is that Mai has been estranged from her two sisters and mother for ten years, and that her three daughters each harbour a deep resentment towards her. What makes this fortune all the more desirable is that the baby born will be a boy-meaning the end of the Duong generational curse, where the Duong women only give birth to daughters, and none know love or happiness. At 65, she’s not expecting much from her yearly meeting with her Kaua‘i psychic, yet at this appointment she leaves with an unexpected prophecy: this year there will be a birth in the family, a marriage, and a funeral, if she can fix the damaged relationships with everyone in her family. Enter Mai, the latest tragedy of the Duong family curse. “Everyone in Orange County’s Little Saigon knew the Duong sisters were cursed.” So begins The Fortunes of Jaded Women by Carolyn Huynh.
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