I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki: the bestselling #Booktok South Korean therapy memoir series by Baek Se-hee

This series has two titles:

Book 1: I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki
Book 2: I Want to Die but I Still Want to Eat Tteokbokki

Book 1: I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki
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THE PHENOMENAL KOREAN BESTSELLER
TRANSLATED BY INTERNATIONAL BOOKER SHORTLISTEE ANTON HUR

PSYCHIATRIST: So how can I help you?

ME: I don't know, I'm - what's the word - depressed? Do I have to go into detail?

Baek Sehee is a successful young social media director at a publishing house when she begins seeing a psychiatrist about her - what to call it? - depression? She feels persistently low, anxious, endlessly self-doubting, but also highly judgmental of others. She hides her feelings well at work and with friends; adept at performing the calmness, even ease, her lifestyle demands. The effort is exhausting, overwhelming, and keeps her from forming deep relationships. This can't be normal.

But if she's so hopeless, why can she always summon a desire for her favourite street food, the hot, spicy rice cake, tteokbokki? Is this just what life is like?

Recording her dialogues with her psychiatrist over a 12-week period, Baek begins to disentangle the feedback loops, knee-jerk reactions and harmful behaviours that keep her locked in a cycle of self-abuse. Part memoir, part self-help book, I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki is a book to keep close and to reach for in times of darkness.

The paperback edition comes in three different colours; the colour you receive will be chosen at random


Book 1 Hardcover Product details
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bloomsbury Publishing; 1st edition (23 Jun. 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 208 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 152665086X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1526650863
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 22.3 x 2.2 x 14.2 cm

Book 1 Paperback Product details
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bloomsbury Publishing; 1st edition (23 Jun. 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 208 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 152665086X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1526650863
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 22.3 x 2.2 x 14.2 cm


Book 2: I Want to Die but I Still Want to Eat Tteokbokki
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The sequel to the Sunday Times and international-bestselling South Korean therapy memoir, translated by International Booker Prize-shortlisted Anton Hur.

When Baek Sehee started recording her sessions with her psychiatrist, her hope was to create a reference for herself. She never imagined she would reach so many people, especially young people, with her reflections. I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki became a runaway bestseller in South Korea, Japan, China and Indonesia, and reached a community of readers who appreciated depression and anxiety being discussed with such intimacy.

Baek's struggle with dysthymia continues in I Want to Die but I Still Want to Eat Tteokbokki. And healing is a difficult process; the inner conflict she experiences in treatment becomes more complex, more challenging. With this second book, Baek Sehee reaches out to hold the hands of all those for whom grappling with everyday despair is part of a lifelong project, part of the journey.

Book 2 Hardcover Product details
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bloomsbury Publishing (6 June 2024); Bloomsbury Publishing
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1526663651
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1526663658
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 450 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.51 x 1.19 x 21.59 cm
Importer ‏ : ‎ Bloomsbury Publishing