Offering Joyce the chance to get The Fold, a surgery to alter her Asian eyes, Joyce is then sent into a tailspin trying to decide if she wants the surgery or not. Just when her questioning begins, her plastic-surgery-crazed aunt hits the lottery and decides to help each member of the family better themselves. He does sign, but he signs it too the wrong girl, causing Joyce to question herself and if she will ever be beautiful enough to be noticed by John Ford Kang.Īlready being the middle child with the sister, Helen, which she is always being compared too and never lives up to that expectation, and the boy, Joyce has trouble trying to keep her head above water at home. The last day of her junior year Joyce finds the courage to ask her mega-crush, John Ford Kang, to sign her yearbook. Summary: The Fold by An Na is the story of Joyce Park and her struggle with self image, love, and family. Joyce’s decision is sure to spark heated discussions about the beauty myths readers confront in their own lives. Printz Award–winning author An Na has created a surprisingly funny and thought-provoking look at notions of beauty, who sets the standards and how they affect us all.
After all, the plastic surgeon has shown Joyce that her new eyes will make her look just like Helen-but is that necessarily a good thing? Her friend Gina can’t believe she isn’t thrilled. Joyce has heard of the fold surgery-a common procedure meant to make Asian women’s eyes seem “prettier” and more “American”-but she’s not sure she wants to go through with it. Then her rich plastic-surgery-addict aunt offers Joyce a gift to “fix” a part of herself she’d never realized needed fixing-her eyes. And it doesn’t help that she’s constantly being compared to her beautiful older sister, Helen.
Joyce never used to care that much about how she looked, but that was before she met JFK-John Ford Kang, the most gorgeous guy in school.
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