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I leave it up to you : a novel / Jinwoo Chong.
Van Pelt Library PS3603.H662 I33 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chong, Jinwoo, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Korean Americans--Fiction.
- Korean Americans.
- Coma--Fiction.
- Coma.
- Families--Fiction.
- Families.
- Restaurants--Fiction.
- Restaurants.
- Restaurateurs--Fiction.
- Restaurateurs.
- Family-owned business enterprises--Fiction.
- Family-owned business enterprises.
- Sushi--Fiction.
- Sushi.
- Fort Lee (N.J.)--Fiction.
- Fort Lee (N.J.).
- Genre:
- Domestic fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 310 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Ballantine Books, [2025]
- Summary:
- "From the award-winning author of Flux comes a dazzling novel about love, family, and the art of sushi that asks: What if you could return to the point of a fateful choice, wiser than before, and find the courage to forge a new path?"-- Provided by publisher.
- "A coma can change a man, but the world Jack Jr. awakens to is one he barely recognizes. His advertising job is history, his Manhattan apartment is gone, and the love of his life has left him behind. He's been asleep for two years; with no one to turn to, he realizes it's been ten years since he last saw his family. Lost and disoriented, he makes a reluctant homecoming back to the bustling Korean American enclave of Fort Lee, New Jersey; back into the waiting arms of his parents, who are operating under the illusion he never left; and back to Joja, their ever-struggling sushi restaurant that he was set to inherit before he ran away from it all. As he steps back into the life he abandoned--learning his Appa's life lessons over crates of tuna on bleary-eyed 4 A.M. fish runs, doling out amberjack behind the omakase counter while his Umma tallies the night's pitiful number of customers, and sparring with his recovering alcoholic brother, James--he embraces new roles, too: that of romantic interest to the nurse who took care of him throughout, and that of sage (but underqualified) uncle to his gangly teenage nephew. There is value in the joyous rhythms of this once-abandoned life. But second chances are an even messier business than running a restaurant, and the lure of a self-determined path might, once again, prove too hard to resist." -- Provided by publisher
- Other Format:
- Online version: Chong, Jinwoo. I leave it up to you.
- ISBN:
- 9780593727058
- 0593727053
- OCLC:
- 1439566238
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