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Yolk


Title Yolk
Writer Mary H. K. Choi (Author)
Date 2024-10-16 22:33:02
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“Sneaks up on you with its insight and poignancy.” —Entertainment WeeklyFrom New York Times bestselling author Mary H.K. 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.Jayne and June Baek are nothing alike. 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). 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). 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. And Jayne becomes the only one who can help her. Flung together by circumstance, housing woes, and family secrets, will the sisters learn more about each other than they’re willing to confront? And what if while helping June, Jayne has to confront the fact that maybe she’s sick, too? Read more


Review

This was such a beautiful, engrossing story. I've read all of Choi's books and this is my favorite. Her prose is exquisite, and the sense of strong place she establishes in the NYC setting is lovely and layered and made me miss living there during some parts of the story, and glad I left at others.The characters and family dynamic are wholly satisfying. The relationships the main character has with her sister and mother are all at once complicated, tender, difficult, humorous, and heartwarming.I also appreciated that this book deals with cancer but doesn't get too clinical. And I don't know a lot about disordered eating, but I thought the author did an amazing, nuanced job of crafting that aspect of the main character's life and I appreciated such an intimate and humanizing look at bulimia. (I think I read somewhere that the author has also struggled with disordered eating.)I loved loved this book and I want everyone to read it and talk about it.

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