Counterattacks at Thirty

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Jihye has spent her career at the Academy mastering the art of invisibility — absorbing office politics, dodging blame, and never, ever making waves. At thirty, she's an expert at swallowing frustration. Then a series of workplace humiliations pushes her past the breaking point, and she discovers that the quiet people around her have been swallowing the same fury all along. From the author of Almond, Sohn Won-pyung turns her empathetic gaze on the modern Korean workplace — a world of rigid hierarchies, performative loyalty, and the small daily cruelties that accumulate until something snaps. Jihye's rebellion starts small but ripples outward through her colleagues in unexpected ways. A sharp, warm novel about what happens when the people who were never supposed to fight back decide they've had enough.