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Emergency Contact

“Smart and funny, with characters so real and vulnerable, you want to send them care packages. I loved this book.” —Rainbow Rowell From debut author Mary H.K. Choi comes a compulsively readable novel that shows young love in all its awkward

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“If there was an apocalypse—zombies, the sun explodes, whatever—fiction writing as a job would be the thousandth priority behind SoulCycle instructors.”

— Mary H.K. Choi, amazon.com

Tagged: Writing, Fiction Writing, Soulcycle, Apocalypse

“Loving someone was traumatizing. You never knew what would happen to them out there in the world. Everything precious was also vulnerable.”

— Mary H.K. Choi, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, vulnerability in love

“Sometimes talking to you is like accidentally clicking on a pop-up with autoplay video.”

— Mary H.K. Choi, amazon.com

Tagged: Talking To People

“A character that scares you is worth exploring. Yet if you breathe life into a character and it comes to you too easily—say you’re writing from the viewpoint of a black man in America and you’re not one? Think hard about where your inspiration is coming from. Are you writing stereotypes? Tropes? Are…”

— Mary H.K. Choi, amazon.com

Tagged: Writing, stereotypes

“Every mom is the most annoying human in the universe, but most of them, besides the super-abusive genuinely bad ones, are in your corner.”

— Mary H.K. Choi, amazon.com

Tagged: Moms