![]() ![]() 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. Choi comes a funny and emotional story about two estranged sisters switching places and committing insurance fraud to save one of their lives. ![]() ![]() One has cancer, the other has health insurance, so they swap identities based on the oldest gag in the racism. 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. Choi is a writer for The New York Times, GQ, Wired, and The Atlantic. Yolk is about two twenty-something Korean sisters in New York Jayne and June. 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. 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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