At its core, this is a book about the kind of loneliness that persists even in a life filled with relationships. I read it on honeymoon—almost a year late because of a cancer treatments—and understood immediately what Seon-Ran Cheon’s vampires were hunting. Cancer ghosting taught me: you can be most alone with a contact listRead More
Credit Card Debt, Climate Change, and Magical Girls: A Magical Girl Retires by Park Seolyeon
Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! I am sure you are all familiar with magical girl stories like Sailor Moon, but have you ever heard of a magical girl with credit card debt? In Park Seolyeon’s A Magical Girl Retires (translated by Anton Hur), our unnamed protagonist is 29, has lost herRead More

