Introducing the Printfresh x Simon & Schuster Book Club
Enjoying a good read in stylish loungewear has always been one of our favorite ways to unwind. To celebrate this perfect pairing, we’re launching the Printfresh x Simon & Schuster Book Club. Every season we’ll choose one of Simon & Schuster’s bestselling novels and a coordinating Printfresh pattern to go with it. Join along as we cozy up with our first selection, The Fortunes of Jaded Women by Carolyn Huynh and Celestial Skies.
First things first, how do you join the Printfresh x Simon & Schuster Book Club? It’s simple. Every season we’ll share our Book Club selection, encouraging shoppers to purchase the read from their favorite small book store or local business. We’ll also choose a coordinating Printfresh pattern to complement the read. Purchase the two and you’re in! To make things official, we’ll share Book Club resources straight from the publisher as well as interviews with the author.
Our spring selection is Carolyn Huynh’s debut novel The Fortunes of Jaded Women to match with our Celestial Skies print. From fate and curses to psychic predictions, Celestial Skies felt like the ideal pairing to go with a read that focuses so much on destiny.
About the book: Everyone in Orange County’s Little Saigon knew that the Dương 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 Dương women would give birth to daughters, never sons.
Oanh’s current descendant Mai Nguyễn knows this curse well. She’s divorced, and after an explosive disagreement a decade ago, she’s estranged from her younger sisters, Minh Phạm (the middle and the mediator) and Khuyến Lâm (the youngest, who swears she just runs humble coffee shops and nail salons, not Little Saigon’s underground). Though Mai’s three adult daughters, Priscilla, Thủy, and Thảo, are successful in their careers—one of them is John Cho’s dermatologist!—the same can’t be said for their love lives. Mai is convinced they might drive her to an early grave.
Desperate for guidance, she consults Auntie Hứa, 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—for better or for worse.
A 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.”
Simon & Schuster prepared a reading guide perfect for diving deep into exploring the novel, themes and characters. Find it here to jumpstart your own discussion and thoughts! We’d love for you to share your feelings on social media, tag us in your Book Club pics and chat with other shoppers about the read. We’ll be sharing a follow up blog post here in March where we sit down with author Carolyn Huynh for an exclusive Q&A. We’ll see you back here very shortly, happy reading!
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