Tune in to hear Lauren Ho discuss her new novel Lucie Yi is Not a Romantic in conversation with Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan! This is a VIRTUAL EVENT live on CrowdCast, please register in advance here
An ambitious career woman signs up for a co-parenting website only to find a match she never expected, in this unflinchingly funny and honest novel from the author of Last Tang Standing.
Management consultant Lucie Yi is done waiting for Mr. Right. After a harrowing breakup foiled her plans for children—and drove her to a meltdown in a Tribeca baby store—she’s ready to take matters into her own hands. She signs up for an elective co-parenting website to find a suitable partner with whom to procreate—as platonic as family planning can be.
Collin Read checks all of Lucie’s boxes; he shares a similar cultural background, he’s honest, and most important, he’s ready to become a father. When they match, it doesn’t take long for Lucie to take a leap of faith for her future. So what if her conservative family might not approve? When Lucie becomes pregnant, the pair return to Singapore and, sure enough, her parents refuse to look on the bright side. Even more complicated, Lucie’s ex-fiancé reappears, sparking unresolved feelings and compounding work pressures and the baffling ways her body is changing. Suddenly her straightforward arrangement is falling apart before her very eyes, and Lucie will have to decide how to juggle the demands of the people she loves while pursuing the life she really wants.
About the Author:
Lauren Ho is a reformed legal counsel who now prefers to write for pleasure. Hailing from Malaysia, she is currently based in Singapore, where she's ostensibly working on her next novel while attempting to parent. She is also the author of Last Tang Standing.
About the Moderator:
Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan is the author of A Tiger in the Kitchen: A Memoir of Food and Family and the editor of the fiction anthology, Singapore Noir. She was a staff writer at the Wall Street Journal, In Style, and the Baltimore Sun and has written for the New York Times. An active member of the Asian American Journalists Association, she served on its national board for seven years. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.