Women of Good Fortune: A Novel
Set against a high-society Shanghai wedding, a heartfelt, funny, dazzling novel about a reluctant bride and her two best friends, each with their own motives and fed up with the way society treats women, who forge a plan to steal all the gift money on the big day
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Told in several points of views and alternating perspectives: Lulu, the sweet naive hostess who meets a very handsome eligible man with very domineering parents. Her shrew of a mother wants Lulu to send as much money as possible to support her unemployed, married brother along with his wife, and of course, the mother who will take advantage of Luluâs kindness and sense of loyalty towards the familyâ¦in other words, send more money!!!
Jane, is a woman who her mother deems her so ugly, her parents purchase her an apartment (very sort after because itâs very expensive to live in Shanghai) as bait to get her married and now she is in a loveless marriage and wants the money to get plastic surgery and divorce her thrifty husband.
Finally Rina, the executive who is so career driven and wants the money to harvest eggs so that she can have a baby. Rina works in a company that will not promote women because they feel a woman is not as loyal to the company. Centers around a wedding and a great heist. When Chinese people get married, it is customary for the guests to give the happy newly married couple red envelopes that contain money. The richer the friends, the richer the envelopes. What will one bride and her two best-friends/bridesmaids do to solve all their problems?
This is not a superficial novel. It illuminates the fractures of parent-child relationships, where the parents treat their children as investments and commodities. It sheds light on what is called âleftovers.â In Chinese culture, unmarried women over 27 are considered âleftover women.â
The characters are all quite well developed minus the minor characters. Thoroughly enjoyed this book which truly surprised me as this is the author's debut novel.
Jane, is a woman who her mother deems her so ugly, her parents purchase her an apartment (very sort after because itâs very expensive to live in Shanghai) as bait to get her married and now she is in a loveless marriage and wants the money to get plastic surgery and divorce her thrifty husband.
Finally Rina, the executive who is so career driven and wants the money to harvest eggs so that she can have a baby. Rina works in a company that will not promote women because they feel a woman is not as loyal to the company. Centers around a wedding and a great heist. When Chinese people get married, it is customary for the guests to give the happy newly married couple red envelopes that contain money. The richer the friends, the richer the envelopes. What will one bride and her two best-friends/bridesmaids do to solve all their problems?
This is not a superficial novel. It illuminates the fractures of parent-child relationships, where the parents treat their children as investments and commodities. It sheds light on what is called âleftovers.â In Chinese culture, unmarried women over 27 are considered âleftover women.â
The characters are all quite well developed minus the minor characters. Thoroughly enjoyed this book which truly surprised me as this is the author's debut novel.
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