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The Donut Trap

A Novel

by Julie Tieu

Narrator Natalie Naudus

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Length 8 hours 19 minutes

Language English

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“Jasmine is the daughter of refugees who own and run a donut shop. And lately, it has become her life too. But she wants to find something else - anything else really - and feel like she's not floundering. She has a fledgling plan and a possible really great new guy too. She just has to navigate her overprotective parents, a best friend moving away, her little brother's big secret, and an ex boyfriend also back in town. Emerging into an adult life in an immigrant family isn't easy, but once one new idea sparks another, and then another, it finally feels like she might just get there. Special bonus for listeners: Natalie Naudus rattles off the parent's native phrases fluently. ”
— Charity • Schuler Books

Summary
About the author

Julie Tieu sparkles in this debut romantic comedy, which is charmingly reminiscent of the TV show Kim’s Convenience and Frankly in Love by David Yoon, about a young woman who feels caught in the life her parents have made for her until she falls in love and finds a way out of the donut trap.

Jasmine Tran has landed herself behind bars—maple bars that is. With no boyfriend or job prospects, Jasmine returns home to work at her parents’ donut shop. Jasmine quickly loses herself in a cyclical routine of donuts, Netflix, and sleep. She wants to break free from her daily grind, but when a hike in rent threatens the survival of their shop, her parents rely on her more than ever.

Help comes in the form of an old college crush, Alex Lai. Not only is he successful and easy on the eyes, to her parents’ delight, he’s also Chinese. He’s everything she should wish for, until a disastrous dinner reveals Alex isn’t as perfect as she thinks. Worse, he doesn’t think she’s perfect either.

With both sets of parents against their relationship, a family legacy about to shut down, and the reappearance of an old high school flame, Jasmine must scheme to find a solution that satisfies her family’s expectations and can get her out of the donut trap once and for all.

Fiction Romance Humor

Julie Tieu is a Chinese-Cambodian American writer, born and raised in Southern California. When she is not writing or working as a college counselor, she is reading, on the hunt for delicious eats, or dreaming about her next travel adventure. She lives in the Los Angeles area with her high school crush husband and two energetic daughters.