![]() The catch is, she only has a few months over the summer to do so, or she would have to leave the US. Hoping Mỹ would be that person, Khai’s mother sends her to San Francisco to seduce Khai and get him to marry her. His family knows otherwise, believing he just needs to meet the right person to discover his own way of loving. Khai, who is autistic, has never been in a romantic relationship before, always holding himself back from getting intimate with another person because he is convinced that he is incapable of love. Mỹ, a mixed-race Vietnamese woman working as a cleaner in Ho Chi Minh City, crosses paths with a wealthy Vietnamese American woman who is searching for a bride for her son Khai. ![]() Yet they do not feel cliche but refreshing, with much thanks to Helen Hoang’s effort to make her story inclusive. The highly anticipated novel from the author of The Kiss Quotient uses a few romance tropes – it is essentially a Cinderella story with a mail-order bride premise. A smexy Cinderella story for the modern world Photo: Weekender ![]()
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