TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sohn , Won-Pyung
TI  - Almond: : a novel
SN  - 9780063266919
U1  - 895.735 
PY  - 2021///
CY  - New York
PB  - HarperCollins Publishers
KW  - Friendship
KW  - Korean fiction
N2  - 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
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