One has cancer, the other has health insurance, so they swap identities based on the oldest gag in the racism.

And Jayne becomes the only one who can help her. Yolk is about two twenty-something Korean sisters in New York Jayne and 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. 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 theyll go to save one of their lives - even if it means swapping identities. 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. Of course it’s messy, it’s all so real.“Sneaks up on you with its insight and poignancy.” - Entertainment Weeklyįrom New York Times bestselling author Mary H.K. From New York Times bestselling author Mary H.K. Despite being in the same city, the two sisters don’t see each other very much, until they do their lives collide, two halves of a whole, brought together by illness and need and love.

She’s also living in a neighborhood in Brooklyn of which few people have even heard (what’s up, Windsor Terrace), has a toxic fuck-buddy for a roommate, and an eating disorder. Jayne is still in college - design school, though she isn’t designing much, other than her own life. June, the older sister, ostensibly has it more together: Still in her early 20s, she has a high-paying job in finance and lives in a shiny, new construction high-rise in Manhattan she also has cancer. Both live in New York, both inhabit the tenuous realities of recent transplants to the city, and both have illnesses they are hiding but that’s where the similarities end - and even within those similarities are countless differences. Verified account choitotheworld New York Times Bestselling author of EMERGENCY CONTACT and PERMANENT RECORD Yolk is out NOW if you want a solid cathartic sob. At the time, Choi was working on her new novel, Yolk, a story of two sisters - Jayne and June - who are orbiting opposites of one another.

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