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Also by Abraham Chang:

888 Love and the Divine Burden of Numbers, May 2025
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888 Love and the Divine Burden of Numbers, April 2024
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888 LOVE AND THE DIVINE BURDEN OF NUMBERS
By: Abraham Chang

Flatiron Books
April 2024
On Sale: April 30, 2024
400 pages
ISBN: 1250910781
EAN: 9781250910783
Kindle: B0CDTKN6GH
Hardcover / e-Book
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Literature and Fiction | Romance Contemporary

Love is a numbers game...

Young Wang has received plenty of wisdom from his beloved uncle: don’t take life too seriously, get out on the road when you can, and everyone gets just seven great loves in their life—so don’t blow it. This last one sticks with Young as he is an obsessive cataloger of his life: movies watched, favorite albums . . . all filtered through Chinese numerology and superstition. He finds meaning in almost everything, for which his two best friends endlessly tease him. But then, at the end of 1995, when Young is at New York University, he meets Erena. She’s brilliant, charismatic, quick-witted, and crassly funny. They fall in love and, for Young, it feels so real that he’s thrilled and terrified. As Young and Erena’s relationship blossoms, we get flashbacks to Young’s first five loves. That means Erena is “number six.” Was his uncle wrong—is she the one and only? Or are they fated for failure to make room for Young’s final, seventh love?

A love letter to Western pop culture, Eastern traditions, and being a first-generation New Yorker, Abraham Chang’s dazzling debut reminds us that luck only gets us so far when it comes to matters of the heart.