Do you think that need to understand what our neighbors are going through has changed in the pandemic? So much of Yolk is rooted in the idea of truly understanding other people. 'Nothing takes the fangs and claws out of a secret faster than just telling someone, of your own agency and volition, in the words that feel best to you.'īelow, Choi discusses dysfunctional families, refusing to italicize non-English words, and living with disordered eating.

The book is a visceral look at what it means to be a young woman today - Jayne's life is a haphazard swirl of disordered eating, sex, and alcohol - a subject Choi has also focused on in her two decades as a journalist, both as a columnist at Wired and as a reporter on the vagaries of pop culture for Allure, The Atlantic, and GQ. ' Yolk is about secrets, and how you’re only as sick as your secrets,' Choi tells Bustle. Their ensuing reconnection leads them to question everything they thought they knew about the other, their collective family history, and themselves. Set in New York City, it introduces Jayne and June Baek, estranged sisters who trade identities when one gets sick and needs to use the other's health insurance. Her third novel, Yolk, works in the same vein. Choi established herself as an author interested in telling messy, real stories from early adulthood. And Jayne becomes the only one who can help her.With her first two New York Times bestsellers, Emergency Contact and Permanent Record, Mary H.K. Once thick as thieves, these sisters who moved from Seoul to San Antonio to New York together now don't want anything to do with each other.That is, until June gets cancer. Jayne is an emotionally stunted, self-obsessed basket case who lives in squalor, has egregious taste in men, and needs to get to class and stop wasting Mom and Dad's money (if you ask June). June's three years older, a classic first-born, know-it-all narc with a problematic finance job and an equally soulless apartment (according to Jayne). Choi comes a funny and emotional story about two estranged sisters and how far they'll go to save one of their lives-even if it means swapping identities. From New York Times bestselling author Mary H.K.

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