The Literary Doc

Rating ★★★★☆ What a breath of fresh air it was to read something so real, so original. The Apartment Women by Gu Byeong-mo took me entirely by surprise. I picked it up at a book exchange event with mild curiosity, uncertain of what I was getting into — and I’m sincerely happy to say that this might just be my book of the year. Gu Byeong-mo’s fluid and absorbing prose introduces us to four families who’ve outlasted fierce competition to participate in Dream Future, a governmen