Finalist for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon’s “Summer Reads” Book Club

Selected title for Books at Berlinale 2019

“Jeong expertly inches up the tension in this crafty, creepy story.” —The Guardian, “The Best Recent Crime Novels”

“[A] superlative thriller . . . Readers who enjoy grappling with the issue of a narrator’s reliability will relish Yu-jin, who believes that ‘being true to life wasn’t the only way to tell a story.’” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“Jeong slowly winds readers up with taut, high-tension wire . . . A creepy, insidious, blood-drenched tale in which nothing is quite what it seems.”
—Kirkus Reviews

This book will pull you in; as you devour it, you may find yourself chilled to the bone by its unflinching depiction of the evil coiled within us.”

—Kyung-Sook Shin, bestselling and Man Asian Literary Prize-winning author of Please Look After Mom

 Illustration Credits:  Virginia Mori