🫧 Open on Bubbles Mary H.K. Choi’s debut novel, 2018’s Emergency Contact , opens with the particular and unrelenting embarrassment of a teen girl whose mother happens to be a MILF. Choi’s protagonist, Penny Lee, is just four days from heading off to college and is at the Apple store with her mom, picking up a promised new phone, when disaster strikes. Penny’s mom, Celeste, gets chatted up by the father of one of Penny’s high school nemeses, the very rich and very mean Madison Chandler. (And we do love nemes