{"id":46180,"date":"2019-12-23T11:12:29","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T16:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=46180"},"modified":"2019-12-13T00:03:05","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T05:03:05","slug":"b-book-and-me-by-kim-sagwa-translated-by-sunhee-jeong-in-booklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/b-book-and-me-by-kim-sagwa-translated-by-sunhee-jeong-in-booklist\/","title":{"rendered":"b, Book, and Me by Kim Sagwa, translated by Sunhee Jeong [in Booklist]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"*STARRED REVIEW<\/strong>
\nAlthough set in a coastal suburb outside Seoul, the cycle of neglect by stressed or careless adults can and does happen anywhere. In such an all-too-familiarly indifferent environment, lauded Korean writer Kim Sagwa (Mina<\/em>, 2018) introduces three misfits: two teen girls and a socially-outcast, self-isolated young man, each struggling for their very existence.<\/p>\n

The titular \u201cMe\u201d is Rang, whose disengaged parents provide financial privilege but care little about her actual well-being. She\u2019s relentlessly abused by the boys in her class, while teachers turn a blind eye. Her only protector and friend is \u201cb,\u201d whose family\u2019s poverty keeps her trapped \u201cwhere people who are ruined live.\u201d The pair are rarely parted, avoiding boredom and responsibility by wandering the city, drinking coffee at a downtown caf\u00e9 ironically named Alone, where they meet \u201ca strange guy\u201d named Book \u2013 who does nothing but, well, read books. When Rang inexplicably exposes b\u2019s private tribulations during a writing class, b severs their friendship and disappears. The cycles of abuse resume, but power shifts prove inevitable.<\/p>\n

At turns raw and piercing, dreamy and surreal, Kim\u2019s latest import \u2013 urgently Anglophone-enabled by scholar\/editor\/Seoul-based translator Sunhee Jeong \u2013 is a pressing indictment of today\u2019s too-often onerous transition toward uncertain adulthood.<\/p>\n

YA\/Mature Readers<\/strong>: Bullying, neglect, and abuse are all topics that, sadly, will resonate with older teen readers.<\/p>\n

Review<\/strong>: “Fiction,” Booklist<\/em>, December 1, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n

Readers<\/strong>: Young Adult, Adult<\/p>\n

Published<\/strong>: 2020 (United States)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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