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. When I showed Lizzy the concept, I didn’t even know if it would be possible to do and that maybe it would get rejected for complexity or budget.I’ve always wanted to be mysterious - the type of girl who possessed an aura of mystic. Like, how can I do a close-up of faces and still communicate all the other aspects of the book like the city and separation-which felt to me to be very important to the story? As I got closer to finishing the book, all of those different directions suddenly seemed to merge together into one idea. Initially, the ideas were so different from each other that it felt like there was nothing to really latch on to. So when I was reading I had all those options in my mind floating around. A close-up on faces, referencing specific moments, different spaces, etc. Gg: Oh, I had plenty of worries about the technical aspects of the Permanent Record cover as well! Unlike the mood board for Emergency Contact, which suggested one idea for the cover layout, the PR mood board had a bunch of very disparate suggestions.

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