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A review by sashapasha
Yolk by Mary H.K. Choi
4.0
3.5 stars.
This is objectively a pretty good book with evocative writing and complicated characters. I didn’t necessarily always like the characters, particularly the MC, Jayne, but that’s not the point. Jayne is both unlikable at times and highly relatable at others. She’s the sort of person who has an extremely judgmental outlook and can’t stop measuring and comparing herself and other people, which generates a lot of negativity and self-loathing in her life. She’s also occasionally the sort of person who doesn’t text someone back because she wants them to be worried about her. She has a LOT of maturing to do, though she definitely takes steps in the right direction toward the end of the novel.
Her relationship with her sister was so well-captured. Deeply complicated yet somehow still semi-functional and the thing I personally found most relatable about the book. As one of my favorite lines states: “Families are such fucked up tiny cults.”
This is objectively a pretty good book with evocative writing and complicated characters. I didn’t necessarily always like the characters, particularly the MC, Jayne, but that’s not the point. Jayne is both unlikable at times and highly relatable at others. She’s the sort of person who has an extremely judgmental outlook and can’t stop measuring and comparing herself and other people, which generates a lot of negativity and self-loathing in her life. She’s also occasionally the sort of person who doesn’t text someone back because she wants them to be worried about her. She has a LOT of maturing to do, though she definitely takes steps in the right direction toward the end of the novel.
Her relationship with her sister was so well-captured. Deeply complicated yet somehow still semi-functional and the thing I personally found most relatable about the book. As one of my favorite lines states: “Families are such fucked up tiny cults.”