{"product_id":"mina-9781931883740","title":"Mina","description":"\u003cp\u003eCrystal toils day and night to earn top grades at her cram school. She's also endlessly texting, shopping, drinking, vexing her boyfriends, cranking up her mp3s, and fantasizing about her next slice of cheesecake. Her non- stop frenzy never quite manages the one thing that might calm her down: opening up about the pressures that are driving her to the edge. She certainly hasn't talked with her best friend, Mina, nor Mina's brother, whom she's developing a serious crush on. And Crystal's starting to lose her grip.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this shocking English debut, award-winning Korean author Kim Sagwa delivers an astonishingly complex portrait of modern-day adolescence. With pitch-perfect dialogue and a precise eye for detail, Kim creates a piercingly real teen protagonist-at once powerful, vulnerable, and utterly confused. As one bad decision leads to another, this promising life spirals to a devastating climax.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKim Sagwa\u003c\/b\u003e is one of South Korea's most acclaimed young writers. She is the author of several novels, story collections, and works of nonfiction, and has been shortlisted for several major South Korean awards, including the Munji Prize and the Young Writers Award. Kim contributes columns to two major Seoul newspapers, and she co-translated John Freeman's book \u003ci\u003eHow to Read a Novelist\u003c\/i\u003e into Korean. She lives in New York City. \u003cb\u003eBruce Fulton and Ju-Chan Fulton\u003c\/b\u003e have translated dozens of books together since 1985, including the award-winning women's anthology \u003ci\u003eWords of Farewell: Stories by Korean Women Writers\u003c\/i\u003e and the graphic novel \u003ci\u003eMoss\u003c\/i\u003e by Yoon Taeho, serialized at \u003ci\u003eThe Huffington Post\u003c\/i\u003e. They have received numerous awards and fellowships, including two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the 4th Annual Chametzky Prize for Translation, given by \u003ci\u003eThe Massachusetts Review\u003ci\u003e, and a residency at the Banff International Literary Translation Centre.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Two Lines Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50613735817490,"sku":"9781931883740","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_61514fcb-c9ef-4777-ab0f-05d3c1a3e428.jpg?v=1732415515","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/mina-9781931883740","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}