.choitotheworld is doing what she's meant to do
"I don't have the kind of muscle memory where I'm like, Yes, I wrote a hit," Mary H.K. Choi told me when we met to discuss Permanent Record, her second novel, which follows last year's New York Times bestseller Emergency Contact."I'm not some Swedish pop song maker where I'm like, There's the hook and this is the build and this is the bridge," Choi said."I don't have that...
"We talk about Saturn returning as this big thing," Choi told me."But the reason why these two books have been about life after high school is that there is this expectation that you're supposed to have something figured out... You're supposed to be in this place.
Pablo's anxiety is compounded by his new intimacy with Lee, who has a level of success that can easily be measured."I wanted there to be a counterpoint to Pablo's perceived failure," Choi told me,"I wanted there to be this huge bright, all-encompassing, irrefutable metric of success very, very close to him."
And yet, the whole not being able to pee thing is rarely what most of us dwell on when we think about celebrity, and when we think about success—which is exactly why we get caught up in our dreams and ignore the more mundane choices we need to make to just get to the place from where we actually might be able to find our own path to success, no matter how humble our achievements might ultimately be.
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