A review by lcr16
I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki by Baek Se-hee

emotional reflective fast-paced

2.0

Although interesting in concept, it didn’t fully deliver. Sehee anxiety is extreme to the extent where she records her therapy sessions in order to remember what was said because she essentially blacks-out from the stress. The majority of the book is her verbatim conversations with her psychiatrist with Sehee’s hindsight and elaboration at the end of each conversation. The majority of the best writing is in these small sections after the dialogue in small nuggets of one or two beautiful lines. However, the conversations themselves felt uninteresting. Maybe I’m missing the cultural significance or something was lost in the translation. A mixed bag unfortunately. Thank you to NetGalley for the ARC in return for an honest review!