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Told to 'you', the story is narrated by a bibliotherapist who sizes up each client's state of mind and then prescribes the right books. One client calls herself a useless freeloader and asks which book might help her leave the boyfriend she has had for seven years. Like a clumsy translation, she resists every attempt to make sense of her, until she asks to be read in turn. Ways of reading become a measure of how people misunderstand one another.

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About the book

Form

Short story

First published

2005 by Munhak Sasang

Author's age

35 when first published