{"id":95066,"date":"2020-08-10T12:13:51","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T17:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=95066"},"modified":"2020-08-10T12:13:56","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T17:13:56","slug":"square-books-hosts-virtual-happy-hour-august-10-with-roselle-lims-new-book-vanessa-yus-magical-paris-tea-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/square-books-hosts-virtual-happy-hour-august-10-with-roselle-lims-new-book-vanessa-yus-magical-paris-tea-shop\/","title":{"rendered":"Square Books Hosts Virtual Happy Hour August 10 with Roselle Lim’s New Book “Vanessa Yu’s Magical Paris Tea Shop”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Stir up a cocktail and tune in to Square Books’ Virtual Happy Hour on Zoom with Roselle Lim to discuss her book,\u00a0Vanessa Yu’s Magical Paris Tea Shop<\/em>, on Monday, August 10 at 5 pm CST. RSVP\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0to attend\u00a0or email rsvp@squarebooks.com.<\/strong><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Roselle Lim<\/strong> is a Filipino Chinese writer who came to Canada from the Philippines as a young teen and learned English by watching wrestling shows on television. She has a degree in humanities and history from York University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From the critically acclaimed author of\u00a0Natalie Tan\u2019s Book of Luck and Fortune<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0comes a new delightful novel about exploring all the magical possibilities of life in the most extraordinary city of all: Paris.
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Vanessa Yu never wanted to see people’s fortunes\u2014or misfortunes\u2014in tea leaves.
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Ever since she can remember, Vanessa has been able to see people’s fortunes at the bottom of their teacups. To avoid blurting out their fortunes, she converts to coffee, but somehow fortunes escape and find a way to complicate her life and the ones of those around her. To add to this plight, her romance life is so nonexistent that her parents enlist the services of a matchmaking expert from Shanghai.
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After her matchmaking appointment, Vanessa sees death for the first time. She decides that she can’t truly live until she can find a way to get rid of her uncanny abilities. When her eccentric Aunt Evelyn shows up with a tempting offer to whisk her away, Vanessa says\u00a0au revoir<\/em>\u00a0to California and\u00a0bonjour<\/em>\u00a0to Paris. There, Vanessa learns more about herself and the root of her gifts and realizes one thing to be true: knowing one’s destiny isn’t a curse, but being unable to change it is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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