... haunting ... Surreal and luminous, b, Book, and Me turns a dark mirror toward teen bullying—often ignored or enabled by adults, and a shameful global phenomenon.
At turns raw and piercing, dreamy and surreal, Kim’s latest import—urgently Anglophone-enabled by scholar/editor/Seoul-based translator Jeong—is a pressing indictment of today’s too-often onerous transition toward uncertain adulthood.
... the text is broken into short, sometimes-dreamlike sections that capture...teenage angst and moods ... A dark, dystopian view of South Korean adolescence, hopelessness, and the cruelties children are capable of inflicting on each other.
