{"product_id":"the-son-of-good-fortune-a-novel","title":"The Son of Good Fortune: A Novel","description":"A Recommended Book From:\nUSA Today * The Chicago Tribune * Book Riot * Refinery 29 * InStyle * The Minneapolis\nStar-Tribune * Publishers Weekly * Baltimore Outloud * Omnivoracious * Lambda Literary * Goodreads * Lit Hub * The Millions\n\nFINALIST FOR THE JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE\nWINNER OF THE NEW AMERICAN VOICES AWARD\n\nFrom award-winning author Lysley Tenorio,\ncomes a big hearted debut novel following an undocumented Filipino son as he\nnavigates his relationship with his mother, an uncertain future, and the place\nhe calls home\nExcel spends his days trying to seem like an unremarkable American\nteenager. When he’s not working at The Pie Who Loved Me (a spy-themed pizza\nshop) or passing the time with his girlfriend Sab (occasionally in one of their\ntown’s seventeen cemeteries), he carefully avoids the spotlight.\nBut Excel knows\nthat his family is far from normal. His mother, Maxima, was once a Filipina\nB-movie action star who now makes her living scamming men online. The old man\nthey live with is not his grandfather, but Maxima’s lifelong martial arts\ntrainer. And years ago, on Excel’s tenth birthday, Maxima revealed a secret\nthat he must keep forever. “We are ‘TNT’—tago ng tago,” she told him, “hiding and\nhiding.” Excel is undocumented—and one accidental slip could uproot his entire\nlife.\nCasting aside the paranoia and secrecy of his childhood, Excel takes a\nleap, joining Sab on a journey south to a ramshackle desert town called Hello\nCity. Populated by drifters, old hippies, and washed-up techies—and existing\noutside the normal constructs of American society—Hello City offers Excel a\nchance to forge his own path for the first time. But after so many years of\ntrying to be invisible, who does he want to become? And is it possible to put\ndown roots in a country that has always considered you an outsider?\nThrumming\nwith energy and at once critical and hopeful, The Son of Good Fortune is a\nluminous story of a mother and son testing the strength of their bond to their\ncountry—and to each other.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0062059572\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.0062059572.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Tenorio, Lysley\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Book has little sign of wear or use  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43098943520829,"sku":"BVV.0062059572.VG","price":5.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/0062059572-0.jpg?v=1775855052","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/the-son-of-good-fortune-a-novel","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}