b, Book, and Me
by Kim Sagwa
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Pub Date Feb 11 2020 | Archive Date Feb 11 2020
Description
“Kim Sagwa is South Korea’s young, brilliant, fearless writer.” — Don Mee Choi, author of Hardly War
Best friends b and Rang are all each other have. Their parents are absent, their teachers avert their eyes when they walk by. Everyone else in town acts like they live in Seoul even though it's painfully obvious they don’t. When Rang begins to be bullied horribly by the boys in baseball hats, b fends them off. But one day Rang unintentionally tells the whole class about b’s dying sister and how her family is poor, and each of them finds herself desperately alone. The only place they can reclaim themselves, and perhaps each other, is beyond the part of town where lunatics live—the End.
In a piercing, heartbreaking, and astonishingly honest voice, Kim Sagwa’s b, Book, and Me walks the precipice between youth and adulthood, reminding us how perilous the edge can be.
A Note From the Publisher
A Literary Fiction/Young Adult crossover from Kim Sagwa, whose Mina was named a Booklist Editor’s Choice “Adult Books for Young Adults,"
Advance Praise
Praise for Kim Sagwa and Mina
“Award-winning Korean author Kim’s first novel to be translated into English is a powerful portrayal of teenage angst. . . . [It] will keep readers rapt until the end.” — Booklist, Starred Review
“[Kim] is an expert, crafting an unsettling, deeply felt, and ultimately devastating depiction of the turmoil of youth.” — Publishers Weekly
“The novel is full of such vivid details, difficult to read and more difficult to forget. . . . A startling, disturbing portrait of teenage friendship.” — Kirkus
“Kim Sagwa is South Korea’s young, brilliant, fearless writer.” — Don Mee Choi, author of Hardly War
“Mina gets to the core of Korean teenagers. Kim Sagwa’s fragmented rhetoric stands for a generation that has no choice but to set imitation as its standard. The novel, which points out a universal desire for unattainable genuineness, focuses on teenagers while at the same time shining light on Korean society at large. Readers open their eyes wide to the agonizing violence of a character torn up by the inability to bear self-deception.” — Han Yujoo, author of The Impossible Fairy Tale
“Rarely do I read a book so expertly suffused with the angst, anger, and instability of adolescence.” — Sara Balabanlilar, Brazos Bookstore
“I highly recommend Kim Sagwa’s explosive and powerful debut novel Mina, translated from the Korean by Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton. In Mina, Sagwa perfectly captures the pressures faced by Korean teens Mina, her brother Minho, and best friend Crystal. This is an unforgettable book and I look forward to reading more of Sagwa’s writing in the future.” — Caitlin L. Baker, Island Books
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781931883962 |
| PRICE | $16.95 (USD) |
| PAGES | 160 |
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