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Counsel culture : a novel / Kim Hye-jin ; translated from the Korean by Jamie Chang.

by Kim, Hye-jin, 1983-

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Restless Books, 2024.

Counseling psychologists -- Fiction.

Cancel culture -- Fiction.

Social isolation -- Fiction.

9781632062321 (trade pbk.)

1st Restless Books paperback ed.

200 p. ; 18 cm.

"Originally published as Gyeongcheong in Korea by Minumsa Publishing Co."--T.p. verso.

Translated from the Korean.

"Haesoo is a successful therapist and regular guest on a popular TV program. But when she makes a scripted negative comment about a public figure who later commits suicide, she finds herself ostracized by friends, fired from her job, and her marriage begins to unravel. These details come to the reader gradually, in meditative prose, through bits and pieces of letters that Haesoo writes and finally abandons as she walks alone through her city. One day she has an unexpected encounter with Sei, a 10-year-old girl attempting to feed an orange cat. Stray cats seem to be everywhere; they have the concern of one other neighborhood woman and the ire of everyone else. Like Haesoo and Sei, the cats endure various insults and recover slowly. Haesoo, who would not otherwise care about animals or form relationships with children, now finds herself pulled back by degrees into the larger world"--Pubisher.

Korean fiction -- Translations into English.

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