I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokbokki
Conversations With My Psychiatrist
Bloomsbury · Print & ebook · August 6, 2024
The New York Times bestselling therapy memoir translated by International Booker shortlistee Anton Hur.
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- Who it’s for
- Intimate, blunt conversations that make room for difficult feelings without tidy answers.
- Genres
- Living with Depression, Asian & Asian American Lives, Therapy
- Published
- Bloomsbury, August 6, 2024
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The New York Times bestselling therapy memoir translated by International Booker shortlistee 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.
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She hides her feelings well at work, but 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 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 the first book in a duology to keep close and to reach for in times of darkness.
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Intimate, blunt conversations that make room for difficult feelings without tidy answers.
Come here for
- memoir in conversation form
- self-help-adjacent honesty
Expect
- psychiatrist dialogue
- reflective, searching voice
Where it sits
| Living with Depression | 68% |
|---|---|
| Asian & Asian American Lives | 26% |
| Therapy | 26% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Asian & Asian American Lives
- Therapy
- Living with Depression
- Authors
- Baek Sehee, Anton Hur
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury
- Published
- August 6, 2024
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Asian & Asian American Lives