The South Korean runaway bestseller, debut author Baek Se-Hee\'s intimate therapy memoir - think Crying in H Mart meets Maybe You Should Talk to Someone.
It will appeal to anyone who has ever felt alone or unjustified in their everyday despair..
Part memoir, part self-help book, I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki is a book to keep close and to reach for in times of darkness.
But if she\'s so hopeless, why can she always summon a yen for her favorite street food: the hot, spicy rice cake, tteokbokki? Is this just what life is like? Recording her dialogues with her psychiatrist over a 12-week period, Baek begins to disentangle the feedback loops, knee-jerk reactions, and harmful behaviors that keep her locked in a cycle of self-abuse.
This can\'t be normal.
The effort is exhausting, overwhelming, and keeps her from forming deep relationships.
She hides her feelings well at work and with friends; adept at performing the calmness, even ease, her lifestyle demands.
PSYCHIATRIST: So how can I help you? ME: I don\'t know, I\'m - what\'s the word - depressed? Do I have to go into detail? Baek Sehee is a successful young social media director at a publishing house when she begins seeing a psychiatrist about her - what to call it? - depression? She feels persistently low, anxious, endlessly self-doubting, but also highly judgmental of others.
The South Korean runaway bestseller, debut author Baek Se-Hee\'s intimate therapy memoir - think Crying in H Mart meets Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
