ARGONAUT BOOKS

Surreal, hilarious, and shrewdly poignant-a novel about a Korean American woman living in Berlin whose obsession with a K-pop idol sends her to Seoul on a journey of literary self-destruction. Reviews "In her funny, short, brilliantly oddball debut, the American novelist Esther Yi has found a fresh, electric way of saying "Screw you" to the marriage plot with a furiously clever tale of a female copywriter who becomes infatuated with a member of a Korean boy band…. Unlike the formulaic pop material she animates here, Yi has fashioned a novel that is witty, self-knowing...Read More