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Yolk mary choi5/20/2023 ![]() ![]() 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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