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Carolyn Huynh

Biography

Carolyn Huynh

Carolyn Huynh is a novelist, screenwriter and playwright. She loves writing about unhinged women who never learn from their mistakes, but yearn for joy. A homegrown Californian, she resides in Los Angeles with her partner and her demon girl dog. When she’s not writing, Carolyn daydreams about having iced coffee on a rooftop in Ho Chi Minh City. She is the author of THE FORTUNES OF JADED WOMEN, which was a "Good Morning America" Book Club pick, and THE FAMILY RECIPE.

Carolyn Huynh

Books by Carolyn Huynh

by Carolyn Huynh - Fiction, Women's Fiction

Duc Tran, the eccentric founder of the Vietnamese sandwich chain Duc’s Sandwiches, has decided to retire. With the help of the shady family lawyer, Duc informs his five estranged adult children that to receive their inheritance, his four daughters must revitalize run-down shops in old-school Little Saigon locations across America within a year. But if the first-born (and only) son, Jude, gets married first, everything will go to him. Each daughter is stuck in a new city, battling gentrification, declining ethnic enclaves and messy love lives, while struggling to modernize their father’s American dream. Jude wonders if he wants to marry for love or for money --- or neither. As Duc’s children scramble to win their inheritance, they begin to learn the real intention behind the inheritance scheme --- and the secret their long-lost mother kept tucked away in the old fishing tackle box all along.

by Carolyn Huynh - Fiction, Women's Fiction

Everyone in Orange County’s Little Saigon knew that the Duong sisters were cursed. It started with their ancestor, Oanh, who dared to leave her marriage for true love --- so a fearsome Vietnamese witch cursed Oanh and her descendants so that they would never find love or happiness, and the Duong women would only give birth to daughters. Oanh’s current descendant, Mai Nguyen, is divorced, estranged from her younger sisters, and has three adult daughters who are successful in their careers --- though the same can’t be said for their love lives. Desperate for guidance, Mai 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.