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Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop

by Hwang Bo-Reum

A Seoul bookshop as a place to begin again

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A Seoul bookshop as a place to begin again

After leaving a conventional career and marriage, Yeongju opens a bookshop in a Seoul neighborhood. The shop becomes a refuge for her and for customers carrying disappointments of their own, including a barista, a coffee roaster and a writer. Their stories connect around questions of work, life choices and what it means to start over. Books and the everyday life of the shop provide the setting for this ensemble portrait of people seeking acceptance and a different way forward.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • For readers interested in contemporary Korean fiction and Seoul settings.
  • For book lovers drawn to stories centered on independent bookshops and their communities.
  • For readers interested in characters reconsidering work, relationships and life choices.

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Starting overAcceptanceWork and identityCommunityBooks and refuge

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Every Day I Read, a new work from Hwang Bo-reum for book-lovers, available now

INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER * NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER
INDIE NEXT PICK * Debutiful Most Anticipated Book of 2024 * Powell's Pick of the Month * A Bookshop Best Book of the Year So Far

The Korean smash hit available for the first time in English, a slice-of-life novel for readers of Matt Haig's The Midnight Library and Gabrielle Zevin's The Storied Life of AJ Fikry.

Yeongju is burned out. She did everything she was supposed to: go to school, marry a decent man, get a respectable job. Then it all fell apart. In a leap of faith, Yeongju abandons her old life, quits her high-flying career, and follows her dream. She opens a bookshop. In a quaint neighborhood in Seoul, surrounded by books, Yeongju and her customers take refuge. From the lonely barista to the unhappily married coffee roaster-and the writer who sees something special in Yeongju-they all have disappointments in their past. The Hyunam-dong Bookshop becomes the place where they all learn how to truly live.

A heartwarming story about finding acceptance in your life and the healing power of books, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop is a gentle reminder that it's never too late to scrap the plot and start again.

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