Next Time Will Be Our Turn, Jesse Q. Sutanto

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Next Time Will Be Our Turn
By Jesse Q. Sutanto — Paperback, November 11, 2025

From USA Today bestselling author Jesse Q. Sutanto comes a sweeping, intergenerational queer love story about family, identity, and the courage to live—and love—out loud.

At the Chen family’s lavish Chinese New Year dinner, twenty-something Izzy Chen braces for the usual barrage of comparisons and judgments. But when her glamorous seventy-three-year-old grandmother, Magnolia “Nainai” Chen, arrives hand-in-hand with a beautiful woman and kisses her in front of the entire family, Izzy’s world shifts. Maybe she isn’t the family’s black sheep after all—maybe she and her Nainai share more than just stubbornness.

That night, Magnolia begins to tell Izzy the story she’s never shared before: how, as a young woman sent from Jakarta to Los Angeles in the 1960s, she fell in love with Ellery, an American college student who upended everything Magnolia thought she knew about her culture, her duty, and herself. Their forbidden love carried them across continents, through heartbreak, and toward the radical freedom to define their own lives.

Told across generations and decades, Next Time Will Be Our Turn is a luminous tale of two women—grandmother and granddaughter—bound by heritage and queer identity, each daring to live authentically in worlds that tried to silence them.