Book review: I Want To Die But I Want To Eat Tteokbokki by Baek Sehee
I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki, written in 2017 by Korean author Baek Sehee and translated into English in 2022 by Anton Hur, is a collection of dialogues and essays about the author’s experiences dealing with depression, anxiety, and dysthymia. It is both a vulnerable opening up to the public’s view and judgement of Sehee’s problems as much as a resoundingly personal journey to the bottom of mental health issues that have kept the author captive for most of her life. Written with painstaking honesty and a desire to help others in the same boat, this book offers unfiltered insight into the everyday life of someone suffering from persistent mild depression.