Thrumming with energy and at once critical and hopeful, The Son of Good Fortune is a big-hearted debut novel following an undocumented Filipino son as he navigates his relationship with his mother, an uncertain future, and the place he calls home.
A small town in the American South takes a strange, silent visitor in and nicknames them Pew. As the town prepares for a mysterious Forgiveness Festival, townspeople confess their secrets to Pew. By the time Pew’s story reaches a climax, the secret of their true nature is dwarfed by larger truths.
When Emilio turns 16, his parents reveal a shocking secret: he is undocumented. Emilio adjusts to his new normal, until he gets into a car accident and the policeman on the scene reports him to ICE. Emilio is deported to Guatemala, but he is determined to take an epic journey home.
After decades of ambivalent work as an interrogator with the Iranian regime, Hamid Mozaffarian travels on a diplomatic mission to New York, where he encounters his estranged family. As he reconnects with his brother and others living in exile, Hamid is forced to reckon with his past.
Blindsided by her mother’s sudden death and wrecked by a recent love affair, Casey Peabody now waits tables in a small Massachusetts town and rents a moldy room where she works on a novel. When she falls for two very different men at the same time, her world fractures further.
