ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022: Harper\'s Bazaar - Vogue - Good Housekeeping - CrimeReads - BookBub - Veranda - Shondaland - Debutiful - PureWow - and more! A profoundly moving and suspenseful drama that untangles the complicated ties that bind families together--or break them apart--as a young Korean American man\'s search for answers about his girlfriend\'s mysterious death becomes a soul-searching journey into his own bi-cultural identity When the Seoul police inform Min that his girlfriend Yu-jin has committed suicide, he\'s sure it can\'t be true. -- Julia Phillips. --Angie Kim Gorgeous. -- Patricia Engel Will stay with me for a long time. -- Alexander Chee Heart-stopping and exquisitely plotted. --Abi Daré The most compelling debut novel I\'ve read in years. --Jess Walter Unforgettable. --Jamie Ford A young writer to watch. --Susie Yang Spellbinding.
Transportive and poignant.
As Yu-jin\'s story--a fraught exploration of selfhood, coming-of-age, and family expectations--collides with Min\'s, the result is an engrossing page-turner that poses powerful, urgent questions about cultural identity, family bonds, secrets, and what it truly means to belong.
And the more he learns about her, the more he begins to doubt he ever really knew her at all.
Or did she? With a controlling and powerful government official father, and a fraught friendship with her alluring and destructive roommate So-ra, Yu-jin\'s life was much more complex than she chose to reveal to Min.
Devastated by Yu-jin\'s death, Min throws himself into finding out why she could have secretly wanted to die.
And When he meets Yu-jin, little does he know that their carefree relationship will set off a chain of events with tragic consequences for them both.
After growing up in California, where he always felt too Korean to fit in, he\'s moved to Seoul in the hope that exploring his Korean heritage will help him find a sense of purpose.
Min, on the other hand, born to an American father and Korean mother, has never felt quite the same certainty as Yu-jin about his life\'s path.
She was successful, ambitious, happy, just on the cusp of graduating from university and claiming the future she\'d always dreamed of.
ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022: Harper\'s Bazaar - Vogue - Good Housekeeping - CrimeReads - BookBub - Veranda - Shondaland - Debutiful - PureWow - and more! A profoundly moving and suspenseful drama that untangles the complicated ties that bind families together--or break them apart--as a young Korean American man\'s search for answers about his girlfriend\'s mysterious death becomes a soul-searching journey into his own bi-cultural identity When the Seoul police inform Min that his girlfriend Yu-jin has committed suicide, he\'s sure it can\'t be true
