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Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781761381102
Format: Trade paperback (UK)
Year: 2025
Publisher: Scribe Publications
Description:
A hilarious, heartwarming rom-com that proves that sometimes home is exactly where you belong.
Jack Jr woke up from a two-year coma with a sore neck, a brand new ex-fiancee, and the distinct feeling he'd missed something big. Like, global pandemic big. Reluctantly returning to New Jersey, and a kitchen job at the sushi restaurant his family runs, he finds himself suddenly dependent on his dysfunctional and very estranged Asian American family- headstrong fishmonger father, Jack Sr; his recovering alcoholic brother, James; and his rebellious teenage nephew, Juno. And then there's Emil Cuddy, Jack Jr's former nurse, who may offer a glimmer of hope, but who's struggling with complicated feelings of his own ...
Can Jack Jr navigate the family chaos, rebuild his life, and maybe even find love (or at least a decent date) in a world that's moved on without him?
'Maybe I've been waiting my whole life for a novel about a Korean sushi chef in Fort Lee, New Jersey? I Leave This to You is funny and tender, with characters whose lives are satisfyingly messy. Jinwoo Chong is a writer for those of us who exist between cultures and identities.'
-Gabrielle Zevin, New York Times bestselling author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
'Modern life, especially since the pandemic, feels like a cascade of increasingly miserable tragedies. I Leave It Up to You is about finding - or rediscovering - the people who make the hardships worth enduring. More than once exhausted characters say, "We are all just trying to stay alive." Among their heaviest burdens are their memo
ISBN: 9781761381102
Format: Trade paperback (UK)
Year: 2025
Publisher: Scribe Publications
Description:
A hilarious, heartwarming rom-com that proves that sometimes home is exactly where you belong.
Jack Jr woke up from a two-year coma with a sore neck, a brand new ex-fiancee, and the distinct feeling he'd missed something big. Like, global pandemic big. Reluctantly returning to New Jersey, and a kitchen job at the sushi restaurant his family runs, he finds himself suddenly dependent on his dysfunctional and very estranged Asian American family- headstrong fishmonger father, Jack Sr; his recovering alcoholic brother, James; and his rebellious teenage nephew, Juno. And then there's Emil Cuddy, Jack Jr's former nurse, who may offer a glimmer of hope, but who's struggling with complicated feelings of his own ...
Can Jack Jr navigate the family chaos, rebuild his life, and maybe even find love (or at least a decent date) in a world that's moved on without him?
'Maybe I've been waiting my whole life for a novel about a Korean sushi chef in Fort Lee, New Jersey? I Leave This to You is funny and tender, with characters whose lives are satisfyingly messy. Jinwoo Chong is a writer for those of us who exist between cultures and identities.'
-Gabrielle Zevin, New York Times bestselling author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
'Modern life, especially since the pandemic, feels like a cascade of increasingly miserable tragedies. I Leave It Up to You is about finding - or rediscovering - the people who make the hardships worth enduring. More than once exhausted characters say, "We are all just trying to stay alive." Among their heaviest burdens are their memo