Back at June’s apartment, Jayne discovers that June has stolen her identity and has been using her student insurance to pay for medical care because she lost her job and was unable to pay for it herself. June takes a call from the girls’ parents, makes plans to go to Texas to see them for the weekend, and offers to buy Jayne a plane ticket so she can come with her. They are unable to determine if Jeremy is still living there. On Halloween, Jayne returns to her apartment with June. While shopping at a nearby deli, Jayne steals a package of chocolate-covered banana chunks. In the meantime, June has learned that she has to schedule an MRI before proceeding with her surgery, and she and Jayne fall into a routine of living together. Jayne continues communicating with Patrick, and is intimidated by his education and accomplishments, which include attending Yale and art school. She gives him a week to leave, and goes to stay with June. Later, at her own apartment, Jayne has a fight with Jeremy, who owes her rent money. When Jayne visits June at her apartment again, June says that she has been referred to a gynecologic oncology surgeon.

Jayne messages Patrick, and he sends her his phone number. Patrick attended the same Korean Catholic church as Jayne and her sister in the Texas community where they grew up. In the meantime, Jayne struggles with an eating disorder and finds a former childhood acquaintance, Patrick, on Instagram. Jayne feels awkward and does not know how to handle the news, but asks June to keep her updated. She swears that she has cancer on “Mom’s dead baby” (20), a child their mother lost that was older than Jayne but younger than June.

June asks Jayne to come see her in her apartment, where she tells Jayne that she has uterine or ovarian cancer, explaining that she does not yet have a clear diagnosis but knows that she is sick. She and June had previously fallen out of contact, though they both live in the city. While at a restaurant with Jeremy and a girl he is seeing, Jayne encounters June, her sister. Jayne, a college student, is living in a New York City apartment with Jeremy, an ex-boyfriend with whom she currently has an ambiguous relationship. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2021.Ĭhoi’s novel is divided into 48 chapters and is narrated in the first person by Jayne Baek. The following version of this book was used to create the guide: Choi, Mary H.K.

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