Yolk, Mary H. K. Choi
Yolk, Mary H. K. Choi
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Yolk

Author: Mary H. K. Choi

Narrator: Joy Osmanski

Unabridged: 13 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/02/2021


Synopsis

“Sneaks up on you with its insight and poignancy.” —Entertainment Weekly

From 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?

About Mary H. K. Choi

Mary H.K. Choi is the New York Times bestselling author of Emergency ContactPermanent Record, and Yolk. She is the host of, Hey, Cool Job!, a podcast about jobs and Hey, Cool Life!, a micro-pod about mental health and creativity. Her writing has been featured in The AtlanticThe New York Times,and GQ. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. Follow her on Twitter @ChoitotheWorld. 


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kat on December 29, 2021

rtc maybe when i finally stop crying......more

Goodreads review by chloe on March 02, 2021

this book was so raw, authentic, painful & honest. i loved it so much. tw: cheating, cancer, racism, eating disorders, mental illness, parental abuse......more

Goodreads review by jessica on December 31, 2021

i liked this! i probably shouldnt have because the storytelling is pretty pretentious and the characters are pretty unlikable, but i surprisingly enjoyed this. go figure. maybe its because i dont have a sister, so i was fascinated by the broken relationship between june and jayne and the circumstance......more

Goodreads review by chan ☆ on November 17, 2022

all i really have to say at this point is wow this isn't YA......more

Goodreads review by emma on May 12, 2021

Something about me is that I love to suffer. Well, okay, I don't LOVE it. Nobody loves pain and anguish and sorrow except Disney movie villains and people who work at the airport. But it is my sweet spot, my comfort place, what I know. So this book, which is both a) so sad, so filled with suffering, a......more


Quotes

"Listeners will appreciate Osmanski’s dramatic flair, which allows listeners to feel the conflicts between the two sisters in this contemporary story of sibling rivalry."