{"product_id":"i-leave-it-up-to-you-paperback","title":"I Leave It Up to You - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJinwoo Chong\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eFlux\u003c\/i\u003e comes \"an endearing novel about second chances\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e), with wise insights into love, family, and the art of sushi.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Wise and poignant [with] mouthwatering descriptions of food . . . \u003ci\u003eI Leave It Up to You \u003c\/i\u003eis about finding--or rediscovering--the people who make hardship worth enduring.\"--Bobby Finger, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003e(Editors' Choice)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLost 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 that 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, and that of sage (but underqualified) uncle to his gangly teenage nephew. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThere 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJinwoo Chong\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the novel \u003ci\u003eFlux, \u003c\/i\u003e a finalist for the PEN\/Hemingway and VCU Cabell First Novel awards, a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e Editors' Choice, and named a best book of the year by \u003ci\u003eEsquire, GQ, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eCosmopolitan. \u003c\/i\u003eHis short stories and other work have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Southern Review, Guernica, The Rumpus, Literary Hub, Chicago Quarterly Review, \u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e Electric Literature\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.88 x 7.96 x 5.13 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 03, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53127169638707,"sku":"9780593870785","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/2L00ij418a9780593870785.webp?v=1773297882","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/i-leave-it-up-to-you-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}