Her Aunt offers her a gift of Blepharoplasty- to have her undergo san-ga-pu-rhee (the Korean word for blepharoplasty) in order to create a more "open" or "Western" eye- "The Fold" of the title. Joyce doesn't give up- Fate has dropped an Opportunity in her path. I even tried changing my makeup and hair and clothes after getting mocked for trying to fit in, I gave up. I remember that same sort of desperate longing to be just like everyone else in High School. Well, he notices her, all right- he just thinks she's someone else completely. Her plan for a summer makeover is incited by her crush on another one of her HS's "Beautiful Ones," John Ford Kang she wants to be the kind of girl HE notices. Joyce's older sister, Helen, was the shining star of their high school(in looks, popularity, and intelligence- the HS Troika!), and Joyce wants nothing more than to be noticed for herself, not as Helen's little sister. An Na's story of a girl who is given the opportunity to change a major part of herself could have been written about _any_ girl in the world, but it is about a Korean teenager, Joyce Park. Quiet and lovely- I never really understood the desire for "The Fold Surgery" before I read this book.
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