| International Standard Book Number |
9780778387862 (hardcover)
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| International Standard Book Number |
0778387860 (hardcover)
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| Personal Name |
Huang, Justinian, author.
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| Title Statement |
Lucky seed / Justinian Huang.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
Toronto, Ontario : Mira, 2025.
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| Physical Description |
437 pages : genealogical table ; 24 cm.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"The work depicts a wealthy multigenerational family in Greater Los Angeles whose members navigate internal conflicts, competing ambitions, and cultural expectations. When the family's matriarch pressures a favored relative to produce a male heir in order to continue the family line, long-standing tensions among relatives escalate. As various family members respond to the situation, disputes emerge over inheritance, lineage, and the future of the family. Amid the turmoil, one relative seeks to use the conflict as an opportunity to address the family's longstanding divisions and pursue reconciliation."-- Provided by publisher.
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| Summary, Etc. |
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 present Wayward with a mandatory suggestion: Father a baby boy who will inherit everything. When the other members of the Sun Clan catch wind of Rose'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?"-- Inside book jacket flap.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Rich people Fiction.
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Family secrets Fiction.
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Inheritance and succession Fiction.
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Billionaires Fiction.
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Chinese Americans Fiction.
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Dysfunctional families Fiction.
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Family-owned business enterprises Fiction.
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Gay men Fiction.
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Chinese American families Fiction.
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LGBTQ+ people Fiction.
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Asian American gay men Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Los Angeles (Calif.) Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Romance fiction.
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Humorous fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Gay fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Queer fiction.
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