When words fail, love lingers—across distance, silence, and the ache of growing up.
Chronicle of a Love Foretold is a lyrical coming-of-age novel about two boys bound by love and separated by silence.
Dong, the son of Vietnamese immigrants, grows up in Mississauga carrying burdens far too heavy for his teenage years—expectations at home, bullying at school, and the unspoken truth that he is gay. His only refuge is Simon, the boy who teaches him tenderness and makes the world feel less cruel. For a time, their friendship becomes everything—until Simon’s mother discovers them, and Simon is forced to leave.
In the years that follow, Dong writes letters he cannot send, clinging to the memory of the boy who once made him believe in love. When a chance reunion arrives through a party invitation, Dong risks everything to see Simon again. But love, once broken, is never simple. Simon carries his own silence, his own wounds, and the unopened letters that could have changed everything.
Told through fragments, memory, and unsent confessions, Chronicle of a Love Foretold explores first love in all its contradictions—the sweetness and the ache, the intimacy and the distance, the way it saves even as it scars. It is also a story of identity and inheritance, of growing up between cultures where love itself becomes rebellion.
Poetic and raw, this novel is for anyone who has ever written words they were too afraid to send, or loved someone so deeply that time, distance, and silence could not erase them.
