Join in an author event with Julie Leong on “The Teller of Small Fortunes.”
AUTHOR EVENT DETAILS
11/7/2024 at 7:00 PM
BOOKS INC. MARINA
Julie Leong in conversation
San Francisco, CA
About the Author:
Julie Leong is a fantasy author who grew up in New Jersey as the daughter of Chinese-Malaysian immigrants, and lived in Beijing, China as a teenager. In her day job, she does finance, strategy, and other business-y things. Currently, she lives in San Francisco with her husband Drew, her spoiled cockapoo Kaya, and a magical Meyer lemon tree in the backyard that somehow always has ripe lemons. When she’s not writing, she enjoys making unnecessary spreadsheets and flambéing things.
About the Book:
A wandering fortune teller finds an unexpected family in this warm and wonderful debut fantasy, perfect for readers of Travis Baldree and Sangu Mandanna.
Tao is an immigrant fortune teller, traveling between villages with just her trusty mule for company. She only tells “small” fortunes: whether it will hail next week; which boy the barmaid will kiss; when the cow will calve. She knows from bitter experience that big fortunes come with big consequences…
Even if it’s a lonely life, it’s better than the one she left behind. But a small fortune unexpectedly becomes something more when a (semi) reformed thief and an ex-mercenary recruit her into their desperate search for a lost child. Soon, they’re joined by a baker with a “knead” for adventure, and—of course—a slightly magical cat.
Tao starts down a new path with companions as big-hearted as her fortunes are small. But as she lowers her walls, the shadows of her past close in—and she’ll have to decide whether to risk everything to preserve the family she never thought she could have.
