Tailbone : a novel / Che Yeun.
"An unforgettable debut novel, indelible, knowing, powerful, consuming. This marks the start of a major career." --Alexander Chee, author of How To Write an Autobiographical Novel A fierce and gorgeous debut novel about a teenager who runs away from her abusive home to live in a boarding house for single women as a global financial crash threatens the people of Seoul.
It's summer 2008, and Seoul is no place for a teenage girl. While the city gets devoured by new wealth and shimmering high-rises, our unnamed narrator is trapped and suffocating in her meager home. After years of enduring her alcoholic father's abuse and her mother's cowardice, she decides to leave. ... Her escape lands her at a cheap boarding-house for single women. There, she is pulled into the orbit of an older girl named Juju. Once a teen runaway hardened by years of getting by on her own, Juju's beauty and grit are irresistible. But when a global financial crisis reaches Korea, fears of a wider economic collapse bring the city to a standstill. ... As businesses close and winter sets in, our narrator must confront her deepening fear for Juju's future and her own uncertain path. Will she stay on the run or go back home to her heartbroken mother?
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- ISBN: 1639737405
- ISBN: 9781639737406
- Physical Description: 256 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2026.
- Copyright: ©2026
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| Jacksonville Main Library | FIC YEUN (Text) | 36015002716831 | Adult New Fiction | Available | - |
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