EAN: 9780778387862

Bilder-Quelle: averdo

A  USA TODAY BESTSELLER " Lucky Seed  is a family saga a romance a bodice ripper—a crotch ripper too—a diasporic Asian American family novel and a thriller. A family story for a family like this could never have just one genre and Huang knows it and has fun with it. The result is thrilling to read addictive and full of heart and hijinks. Reader I cackled." —Alexander Chee author of  How to Write an Autobiographical Novel Succession meets  Crazy Rich Asians  in this chaotic darkly funny romp about the lengths a wealthy family will take to ensure the birth of a male heir from the gay black sheep of their clan. The billionaire Sun Clan of Greater Los Angeles is your typical American family with power-struggling aunties emasculated uncles scheming cousins scandalous secrets and a fortune teller on retainer. But at the end of each combative day the Suns are chained together with golden handcuffs whether they like it or not. Yet strange storms are a-brewing. Their matriarch Roses Sun is grappling with an existential crisis: she must produce a male heir that bears the clan' s surname. She fears that if her generation is the one in which their esteemed lineage ends they will be punished as "hungry ghosts" in the afterlife—an ancient but very real Asian superstition. Faced with this terrifying fate Roses summons her favorite nephew Wayward. Believing him to possess the "lucky seed " Roses presents Wayward with a mandatory suggestion: to father a baby boy who will inherit everything. When the other members of the Sun Clan catch wind of Roses' s plot all hells break loose. Wayward' s family will now clash like never before in an epic war over the future of the Suns…if there is a future at all. Yet through the chaos Wayward sees opportunity. What if he can leverage all the conflict into a solution for his problematic family? What if he can reunite the Sun Clan by healing them? And what if the tumultuous Suns can finally learn how to love each other for the first time?

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