The author of this book easily confesses that the door to heaven opens first on a thorny road filled with pain and suffering, rather than happiness and comfort.
This collection of essays unfolds like a panorama of the author’s life; the world of the soul flowing within the author pulls the reader in like a night market. As if we are seeing the countless human characters we’ve met through a glass coffin, the author’s candid, simple writing lends power to their vivid descriptions.
Her effect fills the panorama of love and longing, and seems to reach ‘artistic universality’ by osmosis on the concrete and objective background of parting.
It is no exaggeration to say that a moving essay is the result of living a moving life. This is because essays reveal the writer’s life and outlook on life.
To that extent, this collection of essays typifies the characters in the work. It can be seen as the wisdom of life to sustain a relationship rather than create new ones. The writing that makes you feel that wisdom is Adella Kim’s “Pat, Pat, It’s Okay.”
– Author An Hye Sook