She is the author of several acclaimed novels, including The Foreign Student (1998), American Woman (2003), and Trust Exercise (2019), which won the National Book Award for Fiction.Choi was born in South Bend, Indiana to a Korean father and a Jewish mother.She and her mother moved to Houston, Texas, where she attended the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts.At this job she met her husband, Pete Wells; they separated in 2016 but continue to share a house in Brooklyn and co-parent their two sons.[7] With David Remnick, Choi edited an anthology of short fiction entitled Wonderful Town: New York Stories from The New Yorker.