What We Are Reading Today: A mysterious bookshop offers a way through grief in ‘The Memory Bookshop’

Author: Song Yu-jeong When it comes to reading fiction I am a moth to a flame when there is a mysterious bookshop involved. Song Yu-jeong’s “The Memory Bookshop,” translated from Korean by Shanna Tan and published in English by William Morrow in the US, was one of the summer book releases that instantly caught my eye for obvious reasons. As an avid reader of translated fiction I tend to seek out works by specific translators whose work has stood out to me previously, and Tan has quickly earned a