A drug that removes pain, an attack and a community that treats suffering as a route to salvation collide in Bora Chung's fiction.
The speculative premise gives a concrete shape to questions about control: who defines suffering, and who benefits from its supposed cure? Chung's mixture of unease and social criticism makes this a useful choice for readers who want their unsettling fiction to challenge an apparently simple solution.
WHO IS IT FOR?
For readers who like speculative premises with a darker or unsettling edge.
