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Mary H.K. Choi Instagram - A wonderful night celebrating an incredible show. Laughed so hard, cried my face off, binged the ever living fuck out out of this absolute coup of a series. Congratulations @beherelater @steveyeun @a24 @saraobery @aliwong @rekstizzy @justinmin #peninsulamentality #descendedfrommongols 🇰🇷🥩🫶 (also met Steven from Summer! IRL!)

Mary H.K. Choi Instagram - 🇰🇷 *heart eyes* @sola5532 for @voguekorea by Hyea W. Kang

Mary H.K. Choi Instagram - I took a sailing class this year, went on a helicopter, saw my 1st, 2nd and 3rd Broadway musical. Bought an apartment and moved into it. Spent a month on a lake in Switzerland and buried my father. Was grateful to be with all my best friends at Lunar New Year dinner when I found out he died. Received the solace they had to give and had to push my book out a year. Sold a show. Baked some cookies. Learned how to forgive myself for all the things I didn’t know but had expectations that I would. Missed my LA friends. Missed my dad. Especially the one I wish he was. Met a terrific couples counselor. Made amends. Learned that grief can feel like shame. Basically it was perfect. ✨🤸🏻‍♀️❤️🥹 happy new year.

Mary H.K. Choi Instagram - Just a reminder that we as Asians contain multitudes. My parents are in this month's GQ magazine with an article I wrote about family. We went through the ringer this pandemic. Together and apart. I think about them always and it's heartbreaking to bear witness to the ways that society and media flatten us. It's enraging to see how we are targeted with violence and indifference. We are diverse. And yet the same. I defy you to read this story and tell me that grief isn't universal. That intimacy isn't unbearable for everyone at different times. Yes, I am in my feelings. I live here now. Honestly, I really hope you'll fucking join me. I love you. Thank you @GQ. Thank you @WillWelch. Thank you @AlHoyt. Thank you @mikechoiart for keeping our parents alive who thank god aren't #onhere.

Mary H.K. Choi Instagram - The day has come! Yolk is now available in Korea. IN KOREAN. 🇰🇷🇰🇷🇰🇷🇰🇷The people who love me best know what this means — that my mother (yes that mother) can finally read my work. I’m shook but I’m also SO HAPPY! I have never seen my name in Korean on any of my work and it’s making me cry! 😭🥹

(✨ 최 현경 signifies the HK in Mary H.K. Choi✨).

Thank you to Wedon Books, Simon & Schuster, Duran Kim Agency, Susan Hobson and Edward Orloff at McCormick Literary for making my inner worlds legible to a community that means so much to me. I LOVE BEING KOREAN SO MUCH. It’s deeply lolsob and truly exceptional. Link to buy in stories. ❤️

Mary H.K. Choi Instagram - Rare post on main with my main (and a Getty watermark lol)! Okay so I went to the @nationalbookfoundation awards with the ever lovely @jennyhan and I got to live out my absolute prom date dreams in this @the.peterdo tuxedo. It was unreal. I blacked out due to general overwhelm but it was as if I were wearing a mech suit. I took zero other pictures lol but the construction was absolutely sublime and I felt utterly indestructible. I get so scared or else become leery of Ruthlessly Tailored Wildly Valuable Designer Clothing but this exquisite suit was as sultry as a symbiote and intuitively generous. It was bafflingly comfortable. PLUS DEADASS JENO FROM NCT OPENED THE SHOW IN IT (final slide). ❤️✨ Thank you @the.peterdo @jessicazwu 🙏

Mary H.K. Choi Instagram - CW: grief, parent loss.

I’m on my way to Texas this AM on the same flight we took the morning after my dad died. This time last year, I was at Lunar New Year dinner with my beautiful, wonderful, chosen family when I saw all the missed calls from my mom. And then my brother.

He’d been in hospital, on a ventilator, for six months due to complications from his ALS but we were told he had anywhere from 3-7 years. I’d been shuttling back to Texas from NY all through Covid and wanted a reprieve. I didn’t go home for LNY though I usually do. That night I was struck stupid with guilt, tipsy because it was the one evening in so many that I’d had cocktails. I hugged all my friends sobbing, unseeing and utterly in shock. Then I got on a plane.

I couldn’t understand that he was still dead when I arrived in San Antonio. I’d traveled as fast as I could. I hadn’t slept. It was so completely unjust and incomprehensible that I hadn’t arrived in time. I felt I was being punished.

I replayed those last moments in a recursive loop, trying to figure out where I’d fucked up.

Cut to last night: The same dinner with the same friends the night before this same flight. Because eerily that’s how schedules lined up.

But this year I’ll be in Texas with my mom and brother on the night my dad passed (on the 31st).

I’m hoping for closure. I’m hoping for peace. I’m hoping I can forgive myself.

I almost wore the same comme dress that I did last year as though invoking a spell.

But the thing is, everything is different. I’ve done a lot of work to move through grief. To try to rest because sorrow and lack is exhausting. To try and understand that of all people the person whose forgiveness I do not need to earn or ask for is my dad’s. He wanted me to have all this. The friends, the freedom, my work, my own home.

My heart hurts because he never explicitly told me this. We didn’t talk much. But this is what I have to choose to know for myself. This is faith. This is trust. But there is also evidence. My dad left his family to seek his destiny and make his life. And on some days I can believe he would want for me what he wanted for himself ❤️

Mary H.K. Choi Instagram - I had such a magical, wonderful evening last night for the paperback launch of Yolk. Thank you to everyone who came and everyone who came but couldn’t get in!!! 🥺💗🙏 It made me so happy to see you all after a whole year of not being able to tour this book. I wish I took more pictures because uuuuuugh everyone looked so incredible and the eye liner and brows and nails and fits were fire!!! Someone (lol Phil) said my readers skew “Asian Diane Keaton” aesthetically speaking and OMG so true and so 😭😭😭😍😍😍 because that is so inspiring. Thank you to @cookiecutternyc for the tender treats, to @yuandmebooks for being iconic and @ohcnoh and @moralisasmile from @simonteen for the love and support. And thank you two kinds of therapy, medication and two 12-step programs for helping me experience the night without anxiety and just feel pure joy. ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Mary H.K. Choi Instagram - Andrew Hyung-bum Choi (5/14/52-1/31/22) thanks for being a pal. 💔

Mary H.K. Choi Instagram - Jenny Han is really very good at taking photos. Grateful for a magical (hot) summer night ✨

Mary H.K. Choi Instagram - My heart hurts today. I can’t stop thinking about all the anti Asian racism and attacks in the news. The videos, the headlines, how it’s all gotten so much more flagrant and angry. And how optics, proximity to whiteness, assigned privilege, Uber rich caricatures in media all play into this notion that anti-Asian racism doesn’t count or is more forgivable. I can’t stop thinking about my parents and how they’re so far away and how I felt when they got their first vaccine shot last week and for the moment where I could allow myself the tiniest glimmer of hope and how deeply I slept that night for the first time in so long. And how I have to be helplessly vigilant again because this is what it is. Anyway I’m sad. There’s just so much ache in my body.

Mary H.K. Choi Instagram - Wow I’ve missed my friends and their babies and their foods and their vibes and their hugs and their love. None of the friends are pictured lol because we were too busy talking and LA people are just too damn chill to pose. 😅 ALSO I learned about OMG LOL dolls and will never be the same. (Miss you everybody who’s tagged and was there in spirit we are all so blessed to be vaxxed 🌱)

Mary H.K. Choi Instagram - happy Mother’s Day to mothers, children of mothers, estranged children of mothers, those choosing not to mother and those unable to mother. Anyway here’s wonderwall.

Mary H.K. Choi Instagram - Hanging out in regular places with some very demure friends 💗

Mary H.K. Choi Instagram - Hi friends. I need your help. If you bought Yolk at a store, please leave a review so that it will be made more visible when you’re shopping online 💛💛💛. If you bought it at Amazon please leave a verified purchase review. It hurts my heart but it really does make a difference to dance for the algorithm. 👀🍳 It’s really tough releasing a book during Covid especially without the human interaction and getting to meet all of you and talking about the book IRL. I miss it so much but creating excitement in other ways is what we’ve got and it’s super helpful. And THANK YOU for reviewing the book on your blogs, feeds and for writing me so many notes of encouragement. I’m so grateful 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

Mary H.K. Choi Instagram - Hi friends! Happy #indiebookstore day! I know I rep my local @booksaremagicbk super hard so I want to take a moment to share my gratitude for all of you! Thank you for the support and love and for including me in your events. Thank you for the staff recommendations and the impassioned hand-selling throughout my short career (I know my books aren’t for everyone so I am wild lucky that I have you in my corner making sure that my stories meet their readers 🥲). Thank you for being so much more than brick-and-mortars. Y’all are all are such agents of change and beacons of hope. I love knowing where you stand and I love how much emotional labor you take on as part of local communities as we all learn together. I’m so grateful for everyone who survived an absolutely harrowing year and I can’t wait to hang out with all of you. ❤️🤓❤️ @loyaltybooks @bluewillowbooks @wordbookstores @greenlightbklyn @oblongbooks @mcnallyjackson @strandbookstore 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Mary H.K. Choi - 4.2K Likes - SO. PUMPED. Also exquisitely in love with this entire team so hard already. I can’t wait to make this so good and so squish and so sob. Your Korean moms are gonna be heated at the wrinkles from the fuggo scrunch weeps and the deeeeeeep laugh lines. I can’t wait to bring this story to you with sound and movement and so much more magic. ✨

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Caption : SO. PUMPED. Also exquisitely in love with this entire team so hard already. I can’t wait to make this so good and so squish and so sob. Your Korean moms are gonna be heated at the wrinkles from the fuggo scrunch weeps and the deeeeeeep laugh lines. I can’t wait to bring this story to you with sound and movement and so much more magic. ✨
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Mary H.K. Choi - 3.9K Likes - Friends. Thank you. I am unsurprisingly emotional today and so grateful. It feels selfish to ask for your love. Unlucky. As if the blessings I’ve received and the grace of your support is finite. Zero sum. As if daring for this book to do well, to be widespread enough to tell its story to the people I most wanted to reach is asking too much. But I’m also done with scarcity. I’ve been shown so many times this past year that love is generative. That it isn’t transactive. And I know in my heart this is true because I love you this way. 💛🍳

I am proud of this book. I am proud of all of us who have the audacity to make something. I love my family of creative humans. I am so moved when I see your work. It’s proof of life. Evidence that we were here. All these efforts no matter how small or quiet count. They give me relief and reassurance and fundamentally change my brain. They are insurrections against despair and mortality. It’s so weird and cool that we do this. Uuuugh I’m fully crying. I love you. 💛

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Caption : Friends. Thank you. I am unsurprisingly emotional today and so grateful. It feels selfish to ask for your love. Unlucky. As if the blessings I’ve received and the grace of your support is finite. Zero sum. As if daring for this book to do well, to be widespread enough to tell its story to the people I most wanted to reach is asking too much. But I’m also done with scarcity. I’ve been shown so many times this past year that love is generative. That it isn’t transactive. And I know in my heart this is true because I love you this way. 💛🍳 I am proud of this book. I am proud of all of us who have the audacity to make something. I love my family of creative humans. I am so moved when I see your work. It’s proof of life. Evidence that we were here. All these efforts no matter how small or quiet count. They give me relief and reassurance and fundamentally change my brain. They are insurrections against despair and mortality. It’s so weird and cool that we do this. Uuuugh I’m fully crying. I love you. 💛
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Mary H.K. Choi - 3.4K Likes - Hi. Guess what? Emergency Contact is FOUR YEARS OLD TODAY! Can you believe it? Penny’s graduating from college!!!! 😭😭😭😭😭

Four years. Four years of me getting to be an author. A NOVELIST. With three books. It’s so surreal and really does feel like some glitch in the matrix or a rounding error or a dream but this is actually happening. I want to learn how to appreciate this. This THING that no one can take away from me no matter how much it feels that way sometimes.

I also want to thank you. For all your love and support. For coming out to meet me at bookstores, book fairs, schools, all of it. For sharing your stories in letters and IG voice memos and in person because for some reason my books made you feel seen and safe. I am so grateful to live in service to you and your pain and your struggles and your bodies and your laughter and your eyeliner and your truth. I tear up everytime I think about y’all. And I SUPER miss you.

To commemorate this occasion I’m doing an AMA over the next few days in stories so please ask any questions you have about Yolk (no spoilers), any of the books, writing or VIBES. I also recorded a little micropod about *FEELINGS* about this day which is in stories. Love you with my entire everything.

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Caption : Hi. Guess what? Emergency Contact is FOUR YEARS OLD TODAY! Can you believe it? Penny’s graduating from college!!!! 😭😭😭😭😭 Four years. Four years of me getting to be an author. A NOVELIST. With three books. It’s so surreal and really does feel like some glitch in the matrix or a rounding error or a dream but this is actually happening. I want to learn how to appreciate this. This THING that no one can take away from me no matter how much it feels that way sometimes. I also want to thank you. For all your love and support. For coming out to meet me at bookstores, book fairs, schools, all of it. For sharing your stories in letters and IG voice memos and in person because for some reason my books made you feel seen and safe. I am so grateful to live in service to you and your pain and your struggles and your bodies and your laughter and your eyeliner and your truth. I tear up everytime I think about y’all. And I SUPER miss you. To commemorate this occasion I’m doing an AMA over the next few days in stories so please ask any questions you have about Yolk (no spoilers), any of the books, writing or VIBES. I also recorded a little micropod about *FEELINGS* about this day which is in stories. Love you with my entire everything.
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Caption : I knoooooooooooow! Can you believe it? Can you imagine how FULFILLED I am in this moment? Behold: the crowning achievement of my personal brand—my UNIQLO HEATTECH Moment! 👀💕Can you even cope with how wholesome and scholarly I can look in the right light? 🍂🍃☺️Seriously, you know that HEATTECH is my actual literal favorite article of clothing and topic of conversation. But did you know that there’s this new iteration of extra warms that have a cotton lining? It’s true. You’re welcome. #sponsored @Uniqlousa ✨
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Mary H.K. Choi - 3K Likes - Yay. First As-Am Female owned bookstore in nyc ✨ lol how is that even possible? Filled my heart to the absolute brim to see it heaving with visitors. ❤️✨🌼 So pumped to meet Lucy Yu the founder and Lisa Ko 😱 who is such an utter ledge ❤️‍🔥oh also signed some books so get them here 🍳

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Caption : Yay. First As-Am Female owned bookstore in nyc ✨ lol how is that even possible? Filled my heart to the absolute brim to see it heaving with visitors. ❤️✨🌼 So pumped to meet Lucy Yu the founder and Lisa Ko 😱 who is such an utter ledge ❤️‍🔥oh also signed some books so get them here 🍳
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Caption : A wonderful night celebrating an incredible show. Laughed so hard, cried my face off, binged the ever living fuck out out of this absolute coup of a series. Congratulations @beherelater @steveyeun @a24 @saraobery @aliwong @rekstizzy @justinmin #peninsulamentality #descendedfrommongols 🇰🇷🥩🫶 (also met Steven from Summer! IRL!)
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Mary H.K. Choi - 2.9K Likes - I don’t normally disrespect @ligneroset in quite this fashion but it’s @voguekorea!!! Thank you @soeun.nikki.lee for the thought-provoking discussion and shining a light on our experiences as Korean-American storytellers in this absurd country. So happy to be included with my iconic siblings @jennyhan @lee_minjin @franceschawrites
☺️💕🇰🇷🇰🇷🇰🇷 (not solely to lurk their beautiful homes 👀). So much love. So much joy.

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Caption : I don’t normally disrespect @ligneroset in quite this fashion but it’s @voguekorea!!! Thank you @soeun.nikki.lee for the thought-provoking discussion and shining a light on our experiences as Korean-American storytellers in this absurd country. So happy to be included with my iconic siblings @jennyhan @lee_minjin @franceschawrites ☺️💕🇰🇷🇰🇷🇰🇷 (not solely to lurk their beautiful homes 👀). So much love. So much joy.
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