Kyrie
This is a very soft and introspective book. Each of the many characters in the book are trying to figure out how to be happy in life, using various methods of trying to attain that happiness in a society that says, "If you just do this, this, and this, then you will be happy."
And most of them fail in spectacular ways. Every single person that is drawn to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop is broken and disillusioned with the world, and how they're told that things should be. But Yeongju and her bookshop (and well-intentioned book recommendations) give people the space and time to think about their lives, where things went wrong, and how they want to move forward.
The act of reading the book itself feels like the act of taking and exhaling a long, steady breath.
This is a very soft and introspective book. Each of the many characters in the book are trying to figure out how to be happy in life, using various methods of trying to attain that happiness in a society that says, "If you just do this, this, and this, then you will be happy."
And most of them fail in spectacular ways. Every single person that is drawn to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop is broken and disillusioned with the world, and how they're told that things should be. But Yeongju and her bookshop (and well-intentioned book recommendations) give people the space and time to think about their lives, where things went wrong, and how they want to move forward.
The act of reading the book itself feels like the act of taking and exhaling a long, steady breath.