Next Time Will Be Our Turn
Next Time Will Be Our Turn by Jesse Q. Sutanto, published by Penguin Group on November 11, 2025, is a contemporary love story that explores themes of identity and acceptance. The narrative centers around Izzy Chen, who is apprehensive about her family’s annual Chinese New Year celebration. Her perspective shifts dramatically when her grandmother, Magnolia Chen, arrives with a woman, challenging Izzy’s understanding of family dynamics and her own feelings of being an outsider.
The book unfolds as Magnolia shares her own journey of love and self-discovery, recounting her experiences as a teenager sent from Jakarta to Los Angeles. Through her relationship with Ellery, an American college student, Magnolia navigates cultural and gender norms that shape her life. This edition, comprising 352 pages, delves into the complexities of domestic life, friendship, and the bonds between generations, offering readers a rich exploration of LGBTQ+ themes within a familial context.
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A grandmother tells her granddaughter about her twisty, often surprising, journey to who she is now in this sweeping love story by USA Today bestselling author Jesse Q. Sutanto.
Izzy Chen is dreading her family’s annual Chinese New Year celebration, where they all come together at a Michelin-starred restaurant to flaunt their status and successes in hopes to one up each other. So when her seventy-three-year-old glamorous and formidable grandmother walks in with a stunning woman on her arm and kisses her in front of everyone, it shakes Izzy to her core. She’d always considered herself the black sheep of the family for harboring similar feelings to the ones her Nainai just displayed.
Seeing herself in her teenage granddaughter’s struggles with identity and acceptance, Magnolia Chen tells Izzy her own story, of how as a teen she was sent by her Indo-Chinese parents from Jakarta to Los Angeles for her education and fell in love with someone completely forbidden to her by both culture and gender norms—Ellery, an American college student who became Magnolia’s best friend and the love of her life. Stretching across decades and continents, Magnolia’s star-crossed love story reveals how life can take unexpected turns but ultimately lead you to exactly who you’re meant to be.
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