The Son of Good Fortune: A Novel

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From award-winning author Lysley Tenorio,

comes a big hearted debut novel following an undocumented Filipino son as he

navigates his relationship with his mother, an uncertain future, and the place

he calls home

Excel spends his days trying to seem like an unremarkable American

teenager. When he’s not working at The Pie Who Loved Me (a spy-themed pizza

shop) or passing the time with his girlfriend Sab (occasionally in one of their

town’s seventeen cemeteries), he carefully avoids the spotlight.

But Excel knows

that his family is far from normal. His mother, Maxima, was once a Filipina

B-movie action star who now makes her living scamming men online. The old man

they live with is not his grandfather, but Maxima’s lifelong martial arts

trainer. And years ago, on Excel’s tenth birthday, Maxima revealed a secret

that he must keep forever. “We are ‘TNT’—tago ng tago,” she told him, “hiding and

hiding.” Excel is undocumented—and one accidental slip could uproot his entire

life.

Casting aside the paranoia and secrecy of his childhood, Excel takes a

leap, joining Sab on a journey south to a ramshackle desert town called Hello

City. Populated by drifters, old hippies, and washed-up techies—and existing

outside the normal constructs of American society—Hello City offers Excel a

chance to forge his own path for the first time. But after so many years of

trying to be invisible, who does he want to become? And is it possible to put

down roots in a country that has always considered you an outsider?

Thrumming

with energy and at once critical and hopeful, The Son of Good Fortune is a

luminous story of a mother and son testing the strength of their bond to their

country—and to each other.

© 2020 Ecco (Lydbog): 9780063006164
© 2020 Ecco (E-bog): 9780062059611

Udgivelsesdato

Lydbog: 7. juli 2020
E-bog: 7. juli 2020