![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What follows is a sweet, touching romance that is light and breezy in tone but not in content, and a fitting follow-up to Hoang’s critically acclaimed debut The Kiss Quotient (2018). So Esme crosses the Pacific Ocean, determined to make the most of her stay in California. But travelling to America is a unique opportunity – one that could set her on the path to finding her biological father, an elusive Berkeley graduate. She’s a single mother to her five-year-old daughter, and her own mother and grandmother need her at home. Would she like to come to California for a summer and attempt to make the very handsome Khai her husband?Įsme is (somewhat understandably) reluctant. Cô Nga (as she introduces herself) does, however, take an interest in Esme. The next person to walk in is a wealthy Vietnamese-American woman who, as it turns out, is looking for a wife for her son Khai Diep – and eliminated the two aforementioned women. A couple of elegant, heartbroken women distract her from her task by coming in, one after the other, looking for a private spot to dry their tears. When we first meet Esme Tran, the heroine of Helen Hoang’s new novel The Bride Test, she’s busy scrubbing toilets in a Ho Chi Minh City hotel. ![]()
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