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from New York Times bestselling author Mary H.K. Choi comes a funny and emotional story about two estranged sisters switching places and committing insurance fraud to save one of their lives. Jayne Baek is barely getting by. she shuffles through fashion school, saddled with a deadbeat boyfriend, clout-chasing friends, and a wretched eating disorder that she’s not fully ready to confront. but that’s New York City, right? at least she isn’t in Texas anymore, and is finally living in a city that feels right for her. on the other hand, her sister June is dazzlingly rich with a high-flying finance job and a massive apartment. unlike Jayne, June has never struggled a day in her life. until she’s diagnosed with uterine cancer. suddenly, these estranged sisters who have nothing in common are living together. because sisterly obligations are kind of important when one of you is dying. enjoy ♡

from New York Times bestselling author Mary H.K. Choi comes a funny and emotional story about two estranged sisters switching places and committing insurance fraud to save one of their lives.

Jayne Baek is barely getting by. she shuffles through fashion school, saddled with a deadbeat boyfriend, clout-chasing friends, and a wretched eating disorder that she’s not fully ready to confront. but that’s New York City, right? at least she isn’t in Texas anymore, and is finally living in a city that feels right for her.

on the other hand, her sister June is dazzlingly rich with a high-flying finance job and a massive apartment. unlike Jayne, June has never struggled a day in her life. until she’s diagnosed with uterine cancer.

suddenly, these estranged sisters who have nothing in common are living together. because sisterly obligations are kind of important when one of you is dying.

enjoy ♡

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co ee, but I need the ca eine. I promise myself not to eat today.

I hustle into my entrepreneurship lecture. Total adjunct professor struggle.

The teacher’s a youngish, sandy-haired dude in glasses and a blue shirt. He seems

the type of guy who’d rather host a podcast than have anything to do with us.

Last year, there’s no way I would have made it to class. If I stopped partying

even for a moment, I couldn’t get out of bed. It was fascinating that if the feeling

of impending doom and dread made my limbs leaden and my head cottony, no

one ever found out. You could get away with anything if no one cared enough to

check. Far away from my family for the rst time, I learned that everything was

profoundly optional. So I opted out. I couldn’t not.

Podcast Guy drones on about Recent Business History—youngest self-made

billionaires, Harvard grads that go onto entrepreneurial greatness, upwardly

mobile white women who seed their businesses from well-connected families,

and the industry disruptors and in uencers whose parents happen to be

celebrities or early employees at tech monoliths. As if any of these lessons apply

to me. As if any of these relics aren’t ancient. As if any of it is ever to be repeated

in my lifetime.

He insists the lesson is that we’re supposed to be able to isolate unmet needs

in the marketplace, but I can tell he doesn’t believe his own bloodless recitation.

He may as well be crossing his ngers behind his back. Or have a massive hashtag

above his head that reads: ad.

I stare out the window. What’s the point? The planet is on re and

everything is random. June is one of the smartest people I know and she got a

job at a prestigious hedge fund without a master’s because her rst roommate

was a nance scion who also happened to be obsessed with Animal Crossing and

shojo manga.

I start clicking through the spring collection slideshows for next year. During

last fashion week some rando Ivy was dating got us onto the list for an after party

at Le Bain, that club with a hot tub in the middle of it. But of course she didn’t

show up and I was her plus-one so I didn’t get to go.

I know that attending college is like praying to God. It’s not that you believe

in it; you do it just in case. Because other people are. Design school in

Manhattan is Hunger Games for East Asian kids with severe haircuts. I can’t tell

if I’m the racist one for feeling like we’re interchangeable, but all the incentives

seem scammy to me.

I’ve never met a single person whose job I can remotely admire.

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