I LEAVE IT UP TO YOU

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Ballantine, Spring 2025

Author of FLUX Jinwoo Chong’s I LEAVE IT UP TO YOU, a prodigal son rom-com in which Korean-American Jack Jr. wakes from a two-year coma—newly single, newly thirty, and having skipped the majority of the COVID-19 pandemic—and must return to the family-run Fort Lee, New Jersey sushi restaurant he forsook in his youth as well as his hopelessly dysfunctional family, and a second novel, to Jesse Shuman at Ballantine, in a pre-empt, in a significant deal, in a two-book deal, by Danielle Bukowski at Sterling Lord Literistic (NA).

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Read “Fish Run,” the story that inspired this novel, at The Florida Review