Tongue: A Novel
Translated by Chi-Young Kim
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When her boyfriend of seven years leaves her for another woman, a chef channels her heartbreak into the kitchen — transforming obsessive grief into obsessive cooking. Each dish becomes an act of memory, self-restoration, and revenge, as the flavors she creates carry the emotional weight of everything she's lost and everything she's reclaiming. Kyung-Ran Jo writes about food and desire with an intensity that makes the two indistinguishable. The prose is sensual and raw, treating cooking as both creative act and survival mechanism — the body's way of processing what the mind refuses to accept. A novel about a woman who cooks her way through a breakup — and discovers that the best revenge is a dish that tastes like freedom.
