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Yolk

Author: Choi, Mary H. K.
ISBN: 9781534483934
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Publisher,Simon & Schuster Export
Publication Date,
Format, Paperback
Weight, 420 g
No. of Pages, 390

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?

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Sitinursharina aminah binti saludin
Yolk

some books feel like they've been written just for you, and this is exactly how this book felt to me. the relationship between Jayne and June felt so close to the one I have with my own sister. Jayne's struggle with her eating disorder was painfully relatable. the way she feels so lonely and sad, trying to make connections, was a punch to my heart. this book simply spoke to me on so many levels.

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Ilham
Interesting story

This book features a set of sisters who are each damaged in their own ways. The sister relationship in this book is so good. Jayne and June both love and need each other and also drive each other mad. Read Yolk if you’re interested in books that deal with the Korean American/Asian American experience / eating disorders / third culture kid experience / children of migrant stories / YA fiction / sisterhood.

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Nurul
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This book is STUNNING. Just one sharp, fascinating, painful, cut-glass observation after another, on the awfulness of being and dealing with people, on family bonds, immigrant parents, inherited culture, city life, narcissists, bodegas, Instagram, disordered eating, first dates, shitty apartments.

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Athirah
Yolk

Some books feel like they've been written just for you, and this is exactly how this book felt to me. the relationship between Jayne and June felt so close to the one I have with my own sister. Jayne's struggle with her eating disorder was painfully relatable. the way she feels so lonely and sad, trying to make connections, was a punch to my heart. this book simply spoke to me on so many levels.

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Amirah Bukhari
FANTASTIC

Yolks is a really beautiful novel that explores about sisterhood, metal health, love and heartbreak. I would suggest it to fans of realistic character in modern fiction.

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