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’s also living in a neighbourhood 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. 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. What is this sorcery This video shows that if you rub your fingers on a freshly cut clove of garlic, you can then gently pick up a raw egg yolk. 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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