Almond:
Sohn , Won-Pyung
Almond: a novel - New York HarperCollins Publishers 2021 - 255 p.
Almond This story is, in short, about a monster meeting another monster. One of the monsters is me. Yunjae was born with a brain condition called alexithymia that makes it hard for him to feel emotions. He does not have friends—the two almond-shaped neurons located deep in his brain have seen to that—but his devoted mother and grandmother provide him with a safe and con-tent life. On Christmas Eve—Yunjaes sixteenth birthday—everything changes. A shocking act of random violence shatters his world, leaving him on his own. Struggling to cope with his loss, Yunjae retreats into silent isolation, until troubled teenager Gon.
9780063266919
Friendship
Korean fiction
895.735 / SOH
Almond: a novel - New York HarperCollins Publishers 2021 - 255 p.
Almond This story is, in short, about a monster meeting another monster. One of the monsters is me. Yunjae was born with a brain condition called alexithymia that makes it hard for him to feel emotions. He does not have friends—the two almond-shaped neurons located deep in his brain have seen to that—but his devoted mother and grandmother provide him with a safe and con-tent life. On Christmas Eve—Yunjaes sixteenth birthday—everything changes. A shocking act of random violence shatters his world, leaving him on his own. Struggling to cope with his loss, Yunjae retreats into silent isolation, until troubled teenager Gon.
9780063266919
Friendship
Korean fiction
895.735 / SOH