Break Room
Translated by Anton Hur
About
Eight strangers are invited to a mysterious Korean reality show called Break Room. The twist: their own coworkers voted them in as the people they'd least like to share a break room with. The second twist: one of them is a mole planted by the producers. The only way to win is to unmask the impostor before time runs out — while grappling with the devastating realization that your colleagues see you very differently than you see yourself. Miye Lee turns the reality show format into a psychological pressure cooker where the real game isn't finding the mole — it's surviving the discovery of how you're perceived. The humor is sharp, the paranoia is contagious, and the character revelations cut deep. Break Room is a novel about the gap between who you think you are at work and who everyone else sees.
