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 has written comics for Marvel and DC, as well as a collection of essays called Oh, Never Mind. 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. A young woman struggles with body image, sexuality, identity issues, and her place in the world. Choi is a writer for The New York Times, GQ, Wired, and The Atlantic. Jayne is still in college - design school, though she isn’t designing much, other than her own life.
I didn't take many notes during Mary's conversation with Jenny Han, but last night, at Blue Willow, I took tons of notes as Shea. Choi at two different stops on her virtual book tour for Yolk- once at Books Are Magic (located in Brooklyn) and once at Blue Willow Bookshop (located in Houston). 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. From New York Times bestselling author Mary H. I've been lucky enough to get to see Mary H.K. 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.
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. From New York Times bestselling author Mary H.K.
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