I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokbokki: A Memoir (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781635579383)

The internationally bestselling therapy memoir translated by International Booker Prize shortlisted Anton Hur.

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 Sehee 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 judgmental of others. She hides her feelings well at work and with friends, performing the calmness 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 desire for her favorite street food: the hot, spicy rice cake, tteokbokki? Is this just what life is like?

Recording her dialogues with her psychiatrist over a twelve-week period, and expanding on each session with her own reflective micro-essays, Baek begins to disentangle the feedback loops, knee-jerk reactions, and harmful behaviors 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. It will appeal to anyone who has ever felt alone or unjustified in their everyday despair.

Author: Baek Sehee
ISBN-10: 1635579384
ISBN-13: 9781635579383
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2022
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.82w x 0.81d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 06/01/2022 pg. 11
Publishers Weekly 07/04/2022
Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2022
Library Journal 08/01/2022 pg. 106
Booklist 10/01/2022 pg. 3
Shelf Awareness 12/09/2022