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💡 Points of Inspiration 💡

We asked David Yoon to share his list of people, places and things he was thinking about while writing Frankly in Love.

My wife’s novel (and movie) The Sun Is Also A Star, which features a Korean-American boy and Jamaican-American girl as its romantic leads
Dr. Seuss’s book Bartholomew and the Oobleck, a careful-what-you-
wish-for cautionary tale
K-Town, Los Angeles — America’s ur-Koreatown
Superstar chefs David Chang and Roy Choi and their mashup ethos
My mom and all her friends from high school, who she still sees all the time here in LA
Director Hong-jin Na’s horror epic The Wailing which, in addition to being scary AF, also masterfully blended in surprising elements of romance, laugh-out-loud humor, and heartbreaking family drama.
Lorde’s ballads
Rich Brian’s absurdist, self-effacing raps
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, which in its own strange way taught me to really appreciate all the nature around me
Anywhere in SoCal’s Inland Empire, doesn’t really matter where
The (hopefully growing) tech backlash
Finally: Mom & Dad

🎉 📚Free book giveaway winners! 🎉 📚

Earlier this month, we asked you to send us your favorite book about family for a chance to win a copy of our December BuzzFeed Book Club pick All This Could Be Yours.

Here are our winners:

Shawna Shrader recommended In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume

Donna Burger recommended Commonwealth by Ann Patchett

Laura Dunn recommended Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Deb Oppenheim recommended The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

Stefanie McGuire recommended The Last Anniversary by Liane Moriarty

Liz Abram-Oldham recommended Educated by Tara Westover

Patricia Li recommended We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler

Katrina Aune recommended We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates

Luisa Torres recommended The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

Rheeya Pitale recommended They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera

Want to catch up on past BuzzFeed Book Club reads? Pick up My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite, The Friend by Sigrid Nunez, or Family Trust by Kathy Wang. 📖