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Lee Heejoo
🇰🇷South Korea
Lee Heejoo's Holy Boy is a novel that ventures into the complex intersection of faith, adolescence, and Korean identity. The book explores what it means to be marked as sacred — or strange — in a society where conformity is both valued and weaponized. Lee writes with a careful attention to the interior world of young people, capturing the turbulence of growing up with both empathy and a refusal to simplify. Holy Boy marks the arrival of a distinctive new voice in Korean fiction.
