NEXT TIME WILL BE OUR TURN

When 73-year-old matriarch Magnolia Chen sweeps into the family Chinese New Year celebration with a woman on her arm that she introduces as her girlfriend, shockwaves ripple through the room. Many of the Chens are outraged, and there are whispers about forcing Magnolia to step down from her role as director of the family company to preserve its reputation.

But her 16-year-old granddaughter Izzy, black sheep of the younger Chen generation, is far more intrigued than angry, as Izzy wonders about her own identity and place in the world. Later that evening when Izzy steals out of the house for her nightly walk the only thing keeping her sane she discovers Magnolia waiting for her.

They walk together, and Magnolia begins to tell Izzy a story. Her story of being sent from Indonesia to Los Angeles at the age of 16 to attend community college, no parents, just a prickly older sister, Iris, who seems to want nothing to do with Magnolia. Then, she meets Ellery O'Shea: her best friend, her safe space, the love of her life.

NEXT TIME WILL BE OUR TURN is an aching, winding, unforgettable love story exploring the love of sisters, of place, of soulmates, and the sacrifices one must make for those we care about most. In writing the book, Jesse says: "When I was sixteen, I graduated high school in Singapore and moved to LA. I lived with my brother, who was eighteen at the time, and although both of us were a complete mess (we were just kids, really! I don't know why our parents, along with so many other Chinese-Indo parents, thought it was perfectly fine to send their teenage kids to the US unsupervised!), my time in LA became such a special moment in my life. I fell in love with the place, and the people there, and of course I also fell in love for the first time with someone, someone I ultimately did not end up with. My last trip to LA was so bittersweet because it brought all these memories flooding back, and when I came back to Jakarta, I pushed all other book ideas aside because Magnolia's story was begging to be told."

Jesse Q. Sutanto is a bestselling and award-winning author of books for adults and young readers. She is the author of the Dial A series, comprised of Dial A for Aunties, Four Aunties and a Wedding, and The Good, the Bad, and the Aunties. Dial A for Aunties was an instant IndieBound bestseller, an Amazon Best Book and Amazon Editors' Choice, and won the UK's Comedy Women in Print prize. Her other adult titles include Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers (a USA Today bestseller, a Heartseeker charter, and 2024 Edgar Award finalist), and I'm Not Done With You Yet and You Will Never Be Me. She is also the author of the Theo Tan duology for middle grade readers, as well as two YA romcoms, Well, That Was Unexpected and Didn't See That Coming, and two YA thrillers, The Obsession and The New Girl. She received her Masters from the University of Oxford. She grew up in Indonesia and Singapore, and currently lives in Jakarta with her husband and two daughters.