![]() ![]() Lyla Lee celebrates fatness, bisexuality, and some fierce work and talent through her construction of Skye’s character.Ī major player in Skye’s story is her mother, who spews such fatphobic nonsense at her that I just wanted to reach into the book and pull her away from Skye. ![]() I’ll Be the One follows Skye Shin’s journey through auditioning for the K-Pop reality TV competition called You’re My Shining Star as a fat, bisexual, Korean teenage girl, while dealing with a potential romance with a co-star, and her complex relationship with her parents, especially her mother. What she doesn’t count on are the highly fat-phobic beauty standards of the Korean pop entertainment industry, her sudden media fame and scrutiny, or the sparks that soon fly with her fellow competitor, Henry Cho.īut Skye has her sights on becoming the world’s first plus-sized K-pop star, and that means winning the competition-without losing herself. When Skye nails her audition, she’s immediately swept into a whirlwind of countless practices, shocking performances, and the drama that comes with reality TV. ![]() She’ll challenge thousands of other performers in an internationally televised competition looking for the next K-pop star, and she’ll do it better than anyone else. But Skye dreams of joining the glittering world of K-Pop, and to do that, she’s about to break all the rules that society, the media, and even her own mother, have set for girls like her. ![]()
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