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I read I'll Be Right There by Kyung-Sook Shin last year and I have been wanting to read this and her first book Please Look After Mom. Although I didn't love this book as much as I'll Be Right There, I still enjoyed this immensely.
An unnamed narrator, who is a popular author in South Korea receives a call from an old co-worker, who is wondering if the author is ashamed of her once friends. So, the author writes the story of her years working in a stereo factory and going to school at night to f ...more
An unnamed narrator, who is a popular author in South Korea receives a call from an old co-worker, who is wondering if the author is ashamed of her once friends. So, the author writes the story of her years working in a stereo factory and going to school at night to f ...more

The trauma was buried deep down under, creates a kind of loneliness that could kill your soul, and you don't have a choice but to face it and when you survive it, you know, nothing can do you anyharm, including loneliness itself
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