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I Leave It Up to You

A Novel

by Jinwoo Chong
Daniel K. Isaac
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From the award-winning author of Flux comes “an endearing novel about second chances” (The Washington Post), with wise insights into love, family, and the art of sushi.

“Wise and poignant [with] mouthwatering descriptions of food . . . I Leave It Up to You is about finding—or rediscovering—the people who make hardship worth enduring.”—Bobby Finger, The New York Times Book Review
A coma can change a man, but the world Jack Jr. awakens to is one he barely recognizes. His advertising job is history, his Manhattan apartment is gone, and the love of his life has left him behind. He’s been asleep for two years; with no one to turn to, he realizes it’s been ten years since he last saw his family.
Lost and disoriented, he makes a reluctant homecoming back to the bustling Korean American enclave of Fort Lee, New Jersey; back into the waiting arms of his parents, who are operating under the illusion that he never left; and back to Joja, their ever-struggling sushi restaurant that he was set to inherit before he ran away from it all. As he steps back into the life he abandoned—learning his Appa’s life lessons over crates of tuna on bleary-eyed 4 a.m. fish runs, doling out amberjack behind the omakase counter while his Umma tallies the night’s pitiful number of customers, and sparring with his recovering alcoholic brother, James—he embraces new roles, too: that of romantic interest to the nurse who took care of him, and that of sage (but underqualified) uncle to his gangly teenage nephew.
There is value in the joyous rhythms of this once-abandoned life. But second chances are an even messier business than running a restaurant, and the lure of a self-determined path might, once again, prove too hard to resist.

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  • Release date

    March 4, 2025

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9798217020409
      • File size: 294836 KB
      • Duration: 10:14:13

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Daniel K. Isaac gives a warm, often hilarious, and touching performance of this delightful family saga. When Jack Jr. awakens from a two-year coma, he's shocked to discover just how much his life has changed. With his boyfriend and job gone, he returns to New Jersey to the family he hasn't spoken to in years and their struggling Korean sushi restaurant. What follows is a moving journey of self-discovery as Jack. Jr. finds new romantic love--and a newfound love for the people and places he left behind. Isaac captures all of Jack Jr.'s confusion and passion. His comedic timing is impeccable, as are his tender depictions of imitate moments. He excels at voicing secondary characters; the scenes of family bickering are particularly well done. A joyful--and mouthwatering--listen. L.S. © AudioFile 2025, Portland, Maine

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  • English

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