But if you really want them to gain power, you can’t acknowledge they even exist.”īoth sisters pretend that nothing is going on, and the secrets aren’t affecting them. Everyone knows they don’t work if you tell. The reader knows those aren’t the only secrets the sisters are keeping, but they also don’t know what the others are. As the reader quickly learns, they are both sick June confesses - in secrecy, to no one - her uterine cancer diagnosis, while Jayne admits to having an eating disorder. The latter goes to college, lives in an almost-rotten apartment with a shitty boyfriend-not-boyfriend while holding a part-time job.

The former holds a high paying job in finance, living a luxurious life. June and Jayne Baek live both in New York City. In honor of that, and if you still aren’t intrigued by what’s been said so far, allow me to dive deeper. Last March marked the first anniversary of Yolk. I would have read it sooner if I had been told that it revolved around secrets, and not in a Pretty Little Liars way. My relationship with my sister is perhaps the most complicated one I have, and no book has ever made me go: “This! This is how me and my sister are!” So, why exactly would I read Yolk? It’s what made me shy away from Yolk at first. The synopsis leads you to believe that it’s a story about sisters, New York, bulimia and cancer. “And how you’re only as sick as your secrets.” Anyone who hasn’t read the book wouldn’t know what the author is talking about. “Yolk is about secrets,” Choi told Bustle last year. Choi’s 2021 novel Yolk was like a drug to me. There’s something about secrecy that breathes life into me. In my own deranged way of trying to achieve that status, I keep different secrets from different people I withhold information, or I overshare in a cavalier way once, and then retract for weeks or months. I share my thoughts even when I’m alone, yet I can’t help but try to be perceived as someone complex, whom no one can figure out right away.

Even when I know nobody really cares, I put music and movies on my Instagram story.

If you are willing to listen, I can tell you everything about the last movie I watched, the last book I read, or whatever big celebrity gossip is going around. I’m eager to tell mine and other people's stories. I’ve always wanted to be mysterious - the type of girl who possessed an aura of mystic.

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