- Mystery, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Cozy Mystery
Vera Wong is a lonely little old lady—ah, lady of a certain age—who lives above her forgotten tea shop in the middle of San Francisco’s Chinatown. Despite living alone, Vera is not needy, oh no.
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Contemporary, classical in form, effortless and unpretentious.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- effortlessdemanding
- unpretentiousprestige
- warmbleak
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- Author
- Jesse Q. Sutanto
- First published
- 2023
- Pages
- 368
- Publisher
- Berkley, Penguin Publishing Group, Cengage Gale
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9798885786133
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“Vera Wong Zhuzhu, age sixty, is a pig, but she really should have been born a rooster. We are, of course, referring to Chinese horoscopes.”
Jesse Q. Sutanto is the author of adult, YA, and children's middle grade books. She has an MSt in Creative Writing from Oxford University and a BA in English Lit from Berkeley, though she hasn't found a way of saying that without sounding obnoxious. The film rights to her women’s fiction, ***Dial A for Aunties***, was bought by Netflix in a competitive bidding war. Her adult books include ***Dial A for Aunties***, its sequel, ***Four Aunties and a Wedding***, and ***Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers***. Her YA books include ***The Obsession***, ***The New Girl***, and ***Well, That Was Unexpected***. Her MG books include ***Theo Tan and the Fox Spirit*** and its sequel, ***Theo Ta
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