Agent: Laura Bradford, Bradford Literary. Readers looking for slow-paced, low-stakes romance should find plenty to enjoy. Still, the diverse cast and deliciously described donuts make up for some of these flaws.
Meanwhile, the friend ex-machina through which Jas eventually finds professional fulfilment strains credulity. The narrative gives ample time to the fraught relationship between Jas and her parents, but at the expense of developing the romance between Jas and Alex, who bond over their similar traumas, but share little else. A workplace romance whose likable, well-developed Asian American protagonists have layered, realistic backstories. The pair start dating, but Alex’s own struggles with his Chinese immigrant mother lead to an unfortunate dinner argument that aggravates Jas’s insecurities about her career. Jas has worked there since childhood, and after burning out on the pre-med track during her senior year at UCLA, she returns to the shop full-time, giving her parents more opportunities to critique her lack of social life, career, and boyfriend. suburb after fleeing the Khmer Rouge and immigrating to the U.S.
Jasmine “Jas” Tran’s parents set up Sunshine Donuts in an L.A. A floundering heroine struggles to create a meaningful life for herself outside of her immigrant parents’ expectations in Tieu’s meandering debut. Julie Tieu sparkles in this debut romantic comedy, which is charmingly reminiscent of the TV show Kims Convenience and Frankly in Love by David Yoon, about a young woman who feels caught in the life her parents have made for her until she falls in love and finds a way out of the donut trap.
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