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 presents Wayward with a mandatory suggestion: to father a baby boy who will inherit everything. When the other members of the Sun Clan catch wind of Roses’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?
Lucky See by Justinian Huang is dramatic and full of twists, a blend of ancient beliefs with the drama of family succession as relatives vie for favor and try to keep the family moving forward. The real question of the novel is whether the family can learn better ways to be or if the Suns will fall to greed and chaos.
I love how the family drama plays out, how each of the cousins deals with the decisions of the previous generation. I also love the diversity especially with Wayward. It is really hard not to root for everyone to be happy even as the twists in the story and unexpected events keep you guessing right until the end what will happen to the Sun family. Will they keep the hungry ghosts at bay and heal or not?
If you liked Crazy Rich Asians or Succession, I really recommend this book. It is a terrific blend of both and is family drama at its best, dramatic and full of twists. I loved the family, Wayward and the final solutions to the family dynamics and succession.
Rating: 5 out of 5 babies.
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