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I Leave It Up to You
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I Leave It Up to You

By: Jinwoo Chong
Narrated by: Daniel K. Isaac
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Jack Jr woke up from a two-year coma with a sore neck, a brand-new ex-fiancée and the distinct feeling he'd missed something big. Like, global pandemic big. Reluctantly returning to New Jersey, and a kitchen job at the sushi restaurant his family runs, he finds himself suddenly dependent on his dysfunctional and very estranged Asian-American family: his headstrong fishmonger father, Jack Sr; his recovering alcoholic brother, James; and his rebellious teenage nephew, Juno. And then there's Emil Cuddy, Jack Jr's former nurse, who may offer a glimmer of hope, but who's struggling with complicated feelings of his own ...

Can Jack Jr navigate the family chaos, rebuild his life and maybe even find love (or at least a decent date) in a world that's moved on without him?

©2025 Jinwoo Chong (P)2025 Penguin Random House LLC Contemporary Family Life Genre Fiction Humorous Literature & Fiction

Critic reviews

'I Leave It Up to You is funny and tender, with characters whose lives are satisfyingly messy. Jinwoo Chong is a writer for those of us who exist between cultures and identities.' (Gabrielle Zevin, New York Times bestselling author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow)
'Sweet and satisfying without sacrificing bite, I Leave It Up to You achieves that which we cherish in our most favorite works: an unvarnished reflection of reality.' (Mateo Askaripour, New York Times bestselling author of Black Buck)
'Funny and wickedly observant with a cast of characters so endearing I laughed out loud and was moved to tears, Jinwoo Chong's I Leave It Up to You is a delicious meal of a book, with courses of drama, tragedy and comedy.' (Jimin Han, author of The Apology)
'By the end of I Leave It Up to You, Chong managed to pull off the impossible: He made me fall in love with New Jersey. His prose is funny, exuberant, and moving, and his characters are packed full of life in all of its spectacular dysfunction.' (Grant Ginder, author of The People We Hate at the Wedding)
'Leave It Up to You explores what it means to be healthy, to love, to rebuild a family in the aftermath of a bewildering tragedy. A tender novel of rebirth and repair ...' (Isle McElroy, author of People Collide)
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