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I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki

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I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki

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THE PHENOMENAL KOREAN BESTSELLER

PSYCHIATRIST: So how can I help you?


ME: I don't know, I'm – what's the word – depressed? Do I have to go into detail?


Baek Se-Hee is a successful young social media director at a publishing house when she begins seeing a psychiatrist about her – what to call it? – depression? She feels persistently low, anxious, endlessly self-doubting, but also highly judgemental of others. She hides her feelings well at work and with friends; adept at performing the calmness, even ease, her lifestyle demands. The effort is exhausting, overwhelming, and keeps her from forming deep relationships. This can't be normal.

But if she's so hopeless, why can she always summon a yen for her favourite street food, the hot, spicy rice cake, tteokbokki? Is this just what life is like?

Recording her dialogues with her psychiatrist over a 12-week period, Baek begins to disentangle the feedback loops, knee-jerk reactions and harmful behaviours that keep her locked in a cycle of self-abuse. Part memoir, part self-help book, I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki is a book to keep close and to reach for in times of darkness.

Product details

Published Jun 23 2022
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 1st
Extent 176
ISBN 9781526648051
Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing
Series I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

Baek Sehee

Born in 1990, Baek Sehee studied creative writing…

Translator

Anton Hur

Anton Hur was born in Stockholm, Sweden. He is the…

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