Choi Eunyoung

A bestselling and award-winning debut collection from one of South Korea's most prominent young writers. In the tradition of Sally Rooney, Banana Yoshimoto, and Marilynne Robinson - writers from different cultures who all take an unvarnished look at human relationships and the female experience - Eun-young Choi is a writer to watch.

Stories

Shoko's Smile

쇼코의 미소

Lindy

Some people break up after a big fight, but there are also people who drift incrementally apart until they can't face each other anymore. The latter stay longer in your memory.

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stephanie

It seemed to me that the strangest of strangers was family.

Dreams. They were a mirage, blotched with ugly feelings like vanity, ambition, need for recognition, spite.

𝓬𝓱𝓮𝓻𝓲𝓮

Time passes, people leave, we become alone again.

If we don't accept that fact, memory erodes the present and exhausts the mind until it ages us and ails us.

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