共 昏迷可能會改變一個人，但傑克沒預料到當他醒過來之後，這世界早已不是他所熟悉的那個樣子了。他的廣告工作已成為歷史，曼哈頓那套房子沒了，連他的愛人都丟下他一個人走了。傑克昏睡了整整兩年之久，醒來後沒有人可以求助，他這才突然意識到，自己已經有十年沒有見過家人了。
迷失人生方向的他，只好回到韓裔美國人的大本營—李堡。傑克回到父母親身邊，雖然他父母親一直活在兒子從未離開的泡泡幻影中。迎接他的，還有那間垂死掙扎已久的壽司店，這間原本就預定讓他繼承，卻在最後一刻逃離的店。於是當年那個他拋諸身後的日常又再度回歸。凌晨四點，揉著惺忪的睡眼，在盛放鮪魚的箱子堆中，聆聽爸爸的教誨；在櫃檯內分發鰤魚的份量，一邊聽著媽媽算前一天晚上，少到可憐的客人人數；同時跟正在戒掉酗酒習慣的兄弟詹姆士爭吵。除此之外，也迎來了一些新的相遇：對照顧他的護理師產生了好感，並且努力當姪子的好叔叔。
曾經被拋棄的生活方式，在歡樂的節奏中展現了它的價值。然而，人生第二次的機會，卻比經營一間餐廳要來得更加複雜。而曾經選定的人生方向，也令人難以放下。(文／博客來外文館)
From the award-winning author of Flux comes a dazzling novel about love, family, and the art of sushi that asks: What if you could return to the point of a fateful choice, wiser than before, and find the courage to forge a new path?
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.
Why do we run from those we love, and why do we still love those who run from us? A highly entertaining and poignant story about second chances and self-discovery, I Leave It Up to You navigates loss, love, and the absurdity of finding one’s footing after the ground gives way.
