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An Unmoored Tale of Depression in Kyung-Ran Jo's "Blowfish" - Chicago Review of Books

In 2022, Korea’s suicide rate was 25.2 in 100,000. When the global youth suicide rate decreased (2000–2019), Korea’s rate increased. It’s in that nation, one haunted by generational death by suicide and a darkness that feels not solely genetic but nearly contagious, that the moody Blowfish by Kyung-Ran Jo, translated from the Korean by Chi-Young Kim, begins, before spooling out to split its time between Seoul and Tokyo. In the novel, an artist a…
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chireviewofbooks.com broke the news in on Thursday, July 17, 2025.
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