But this silly arrogance of mine is the reason why I am nothing now. I secretly sneered at cowards who compromised with reality. Eunyoung’s lyrical prose and complex characters will captivate readers. Shoko's Smile: Stories by Choi Eunyoung 2,872 ratings, 4.00 average rating, 540 reviews Open Preview Shoko's Smile Quotes Showing 1-24 of 24 Those were the days when I believed my life would turn out special. In “Michaela,” the title character receives an ill-fated visit from her hairdresser mother in Seoul and recounts a trip they took there three decades earlier to hear the pope give a mass. She’s surprised how easy it is to speak with him as they share moments from their lives they’ve never told anyone before. She is drawn to Hanji, a new volunteer at the monastery who is a veterinarian from Nairobi. Buy a discounted Paperback of Shokos Smile online from Australias leading online bookstore. In “Hanji and Youngju,” 27-year-old Youngju lives in a monastery for seven months and thinks about life passing her by, feeling guilty over abandoning grad school to be there. Booktopia has Shokos Smile by Choi Eunyoung. Soyu notes how her grandfather’s talking with Shoko in Japanese makes him and her mother come alive (“I used to think they were like grandfather clocks that had stopped ticking, that gathered dust and faded in color each year”). In the title story, 10th-grader Shoko stays with Soyu during a week-long exchange program between South Korea and Japan, hoping to lay the groundwork for her dream of one day leaving Japan.
Eunyoung’s engaging debut collection examines her protagonists’ interior lives in moments of longing, connection, and familial rift.
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