The Healing Season of Pottery

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The Healing Season of Pottery
by Yeon Somin

ISBN: 9781643756752
Softcover, new
Release Date 10/22/2024

Brief Description:
Burned out by her TV news writing job, Jungmin abruptly leaves her job to
take time alone and attempt to put her life back together. When she
stumbles upon a little pottery studio in her neighborhood, its windows
almost entirely covered by plants, she is invited in by the mysterious
workshop teacher. The warmth and light, the smell of clay, and the
incredible coffee the students drink all awaken her senses and make her
feel alive for the first time in months. Over the coming year, season by
season, pot by pot, Jungmin returns to herself and builds unexpected
friendships with the other members of the studio, who are all working
through their own trials by working at the pottery wheel. She connects with
one student in particular, whose relationship with his girlfriend has begun
to fray, and the two begin to lean on each other more and more. As the
holidays approach and the snow piles up on the studio windowsill, Jungmin
realizes how much she has changed and that she might even be open to love
again–but she’ll have to make the decision whether to stay where she’s
grown so comfortable, or take a risk. In her English-language debut
(translated by Clare Richards), rising Korean literary star Yeon Somin
shares a testament to the joys and power of slowing down in a fast-paced
world and an homage to the art of ceramics, as she immerses readers in a
world they won’t want to leave after the final page.