A review by electrifyingpenguin
I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki by Baek Se-hee

emotional reflective slow-paced

3.0

A deeply personal record of the author's therapy sessions with her psychiatrist, but the book being mostly comprised of transcripts of those sessions with limited commentary or reflection holds it back as a memoir. I appreciate how candid the author is during the sessions, but the book ultimately doesn't dive too deep into the causes of her anxiety or depression. 

It's not a great memoir, but it is a good record or example of how therapy works, and how it's a constant work in progress. The author ends the book with a sense of improvement, and that is nice to see. 

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