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On an island in South Korea replete with natural beauty and in the middle of a major demographic transformation, the daughter of a developer is raped on a hike in the middle of the day. She is too ashamed to tell anyone. A year later, Shin Su Mi is unable to bear the pain any longer. What choice will she make: ask the island's unreliable and sexist police force to take her case, or pursue her own justice? If she chooses the latter, what will that justice look like? Awseungsaengak is her story.

Five people stay at a bed and breakfast run by a retired couple. Each guest is haunted by memories of violent trauma. A vacation in the pine barrens of Massachusetts in midsummer seems a welcome respite from the constant encroachments of memory into their lives. The past, however, is impossible to ignore, and in the collision of personalities and desires that quickly wrecks the holiday atmosphere of the bed and breakfast each character is confronted with the horror of trauma, both in themselves and in each other.

Bo Cleary pedals across Southeastern Massachusetts to the Cape Cod Canal to go to the birthday party of a man he loathes. Why he does it, and what happens on the day of his pedal, make up the action of Ji Eun's Gift, a novel of ideas operative in a world of remarkable incidents, unique people and vivid beauty.