Mary H.K. Choi

I'm Brittany Luse, and you're listening to It's Been a Minute from NPR, a show about what's going on in culture and why it doesn't happen by accident.

Today on the show, I'm joined by Mary H.K. Choi, the New York Times best-selling author of young adult novels Emergency Contact and Yolk.

Her newest novel, Pool House, is for adults, and details the relationship between a Korean American D-list actress in her 40s and her 20-year-old daughter, who's always lived in her mother's shadow.

Today's chat is all about families, how they change, how they don't, and why we keep on loving the ones who hurt us the most.

I'm so into it.

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That was Mary H.K. Choi, author of Pool House.

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