Best friends b and Rang are all each other have. Their parents are
absent, their teachers avert their eyes when they walk by. Everyone else
in town acts like they live in Seoul even though it's painfully obvious
they don't. When Rang begins to be bullied horribly by the boys in
baseball hats, b fends them off. But one day Rang unintentionally tells
the whole class about b's dying sister and how her family is poor, and
each of them finds herself desperately alone. The only place they can
reclaim themselves, and perhaps each other, is beyond the part of town
where lunatics live--the End.
In a piercing, heartbreaking, and astonishingly honest voice, Kim
Sagwa's b, Book, and Me walks the precipice between youth and
adulthood, reminding us how perilous the edge can be.