![]() ![]() Part of that is egomaniacal and juvenile. So many of the conversations in Yolk that take place between family members-especially mothers and daughters or siblings-were conversations I wish I had in my own life. There's also an aspect of it which is more fantastical. This is a totally different person who incidentally happens to be Korean and has issues with her mother.” It's pretty irresistible, especially as a new writer, cannibalizing my own life and putting a little fake nose and glasses on it and trotting it out into the universe saying “No, this isn't my story at all. There's this weird thing about writing fiction where, even if you wanted to be wholly divorced from your own life and experiences, that's what you end up drawing from. The truth is, a lot of what I do is publicly workshop my own baggage for money. People always ask me, why do you write YA? Part of it is writing stories that I wish I had access to when I was younger, not only from a representation standpoint. ![]() Choi's third book, Yolk, ( out March 2 from Simon & Schuster) tells the story of two Korean-American sisters and their struggles with family, identity, cultural erasure, and intergenerational trauma. The best-selling author, cultural commentator, and journalist Mary H.K. ![]()
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