Mary H.K. Choi

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Mary H.K. Choi is the New York Times bestselling author of Emergency Contact, Permanent Record and Yolk.

She is currently working on her fourth book. Her first adult novel.

Permanent Record is currently being adapted for a feature film; and Yolk, for a TV series, with Choi serving as executive producer and writer for both.

You can buy all three of her books here.

For inquires please contact Jason Richman at UTA.

For appearances/press as it relates to books, please contact Lisa Moraleda at Simon & Schuster.

To contact her directly, you can do so here.

She can be found on Threads or Instagram for more musings. Very rarely on TikTok.

Portrait: Aaron Richter.

— Soon to be a series.

From New York Times bestselling author Mary H.K. Choi comes a funny and emotional story about two estranged sisters and how far they’ll go to save one of their lives — even if it means swapping identities.

Jayne and June Baek are nothing alike. June’s three years older, a classic first-born, know-it-all narc with a problematic finance job and an equally soulless apartment (according to Jayne). Jayne is an emotionally stunted, self-obsessed basket case who lives in squalor, has egregious taste in men, and needs to get to class and stop wasting Mom and Dad’s money (if you ask June). Once thick as thieves, these sisters who moved from Seoul to San Antonio to New York together now don’t want anything to do with each other.

That is, until June gets cancer. And Jayne becomes the only one who can help her.

Flung together by circumstance, housing woes, and family secrets, will the sisters learn more about each other than they’re willing to confront? And what if while helping June, Jayne has to confront the fact that maybe she’s sick, too?

— Soon to be a major motion picture.

Permanent Record. Book two. Release date: September 3, 2019. In the same way that Emergency Contact is about love and texting, Permanent Record is about love and social media. And fame. And student loan debt. And clout. And how waiting for the perfect moment to start living your life is a recipe for anxiety storms. You can order it here. I hope you enjoy it. Oh, also, you can read an excerpt on Entertainment Weekly. xo

Meow. Emergency Contact. My first book. My entire heart. Released: March 27, 2018 on Simon & Schuster. You can order from any number of your favorite bookshops. Or libraries are wonderful too. There's also an excerpt Entertainment Weekly.

Hey, Cool Pod!

Hi! As with everyone on the planet with thumbs I have a podcast. Well, two. Essentially, I have as many podcasts as I do thumbs. Hooray.

Hey, Cool Job! is about jobs. We’ve had a ton of illustrious guests. Like, New York Times’s Jenna Wortham, Mero from the number one late-night show in history Desus & Mero, porn legend Asa Akira, comedian Joel Kim Booster. You get the idea. A lot of melanin and a lot of good times. Subscribe here.

Plus, there’s my micropod, Hey, Cool Life! Which lives here. It’s more stream-of-consciousness and updated daily-ish, covering the intersection of mental health and creativity. Basically how to cope when your ambition tries to eat you alive while you’re making art and existing. This thread covers all the articles I mention throughout.

So yeah. Subscribe and if you like it. Please leave a review on iTunes. Also, don’t let me tell you what to do. Live your life. xo

oh, never mind

I wrote a Kindle Single called Oh, Never Mind that contains five essays ranging from topics like bulimia, Asianning among Asians in America, Leaving New York (I’m back by the way), risking financial ruin for a leather jacket and the time an ex-boyfriend showed me the ultimate d*ckpic (a sonogram). It goes on sale a lot.

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