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Bora Chung reimagines the ghost story as something intimate and domestic — a tale of appetite, body, and the fraught space between mothers and daughters. Framed through the gossip of office colleagues sharing stories on smoke breaks, the novella circles around eating disorders, adolescence, and the ways women’s hunger is policed from the inside out. Chung, shortlisted for the International Booker Prize for Cursed Bunny, works at the intersection of horror and social critique, and here the horror is quieter but no less unsettling: the ghost is not a stranger but a feeling you inherited, a relationship with food and flesh that was handed down before you had words for it. What haunts you most is what was served at the family table.