Dear Friends,

We will be reading the story ‘Almond: A Novel’ written by Won-pyung Sohn (Translated by Sandy Joosun Lee) in March.

WHEN_Thursday, March 18. / 7:30PM (Seoul)
WHERE_via Zoom
READ_’Amond: A Novel’ by Won-pyung Sohn (Translated by Sandy Joosun Lee)
LEADERS_Jenny Byun and Brother Anthony of Taize

Book Order:
US Almond – HarperCollins
KR Almond: A Novel – Kyobo 

Yunjae, a boy with a brain condition called Alexithymia, finds it difficult to feel emotions even when faced with traumatic events. When the protection and guidance of his family are tragically wrested away on his sixteenth birthday, he retreats into isolation until Gon, the new troublemaker at school, draws him out of his comfort zone and into a life experienced with other people.

Sohn Won-pyung is a film director, screenwriter, and novelist living in South Korea. She earned a BA in social studies and philosophy at Sogang University and film directing at the Korean Academy of Film Arts. She has won several prizes, including the Film Review Award of the 6th Cine21, and the Science Fantasy Writers’ Award for her movie script I Believe in the Moment. She also wrote and directed a number of short films, including Oooh You Make Me Sick and A Two-way Monologue. She made her literary debut in 2017 with her first full-length novel, Almond, which won the Changbi Prize for Young Adult Fiction. -HarperCollins

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