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Goodreads Editors Pick - Publishers Weekly Author to Watch
Packed with pop culture.... A beautifully tender and funny examination of love of identity of making your way in a world that is getting bigger and smaller at the same time. --Kevin Wilson bestselling author of Nothing to See Here
Love is a numbers game...
Young Wang has received plenty of wisdom from his beloved uncle: dont take life too seriously get out on the road when you can and everyone gets just seven great loves in their life--so dont blow it. This last one sticks with Young as he is an obsessive cataloger of his life: movies watched favorite albums . . . all filtered through Chinese numerology and superstition. He finds meaning in almost everything for which his two best friends endlessly tease him. But then at the end of 1995 when Young is at New York University he meets Erena. Shes brilliant charismatic quick-witted and crassly funny. They fall in love and for Young it feels so real that hes thrilled and terrified. As Young and Erenas relationship blossoms we get flashbacks to Youngs first five loves. That means Erena is number six. Was his uncle wrong--is she the one and only? Or are they fated for failure to make room for Youngs final seventh love?
A love letter to Western pop culture Eastern traditions and being a first-generation New Yorker Abraham Changs dazzling debut reminds us that luck only gets us so far when it comes to matters of the heart.
