Readers are crushing on lovers who know their way around the kitchen.
, protagonist Jasmine is living with her parents after graduating from college and helping them run the doughnut shop they’ve been operating since they fled Cambodia for the U.S. before she was born. The work is presented as mostly onerous and boring: The shop is open from 5 a.m. to 10 p.m., and they can’t afford to hire any other employees, which means at least one of her parents is basically always working.
Tieu wanted to examine how these traditional mom and pop shops might deal with the digital era. “My parents retired a long time ago, but I thought to myself, What would my parents do in this Instagram age, where there’s all these highly decorated, really fancy flavors that are coming out?” She also wanted to capture a way of life that she says is disappearing as the generations turn over. “A lot of owners are getting older and are retiring,” Tieu says.
In Tieu’s family, cooking signaled care. “I think food, especially for my family but I’m sure for a lot of Asian cultures, is the way we nurture each other,” she says. Tieu also remembers using doughnuts from her parents’ store as part of her early attempts at flirtation. “Every day that I would work, I’d ask my parents, ‘Can I take these extra doughnuts to school tomorrow?’” Tieu recalls. “I would take this box to school, this pink box, and everybody’s eyes just lit up.
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