LIAR, DREAMER, THIEF

Hannah Choi captivates listeners with this surreal debut thriller, which thoughtfully explores the issue of mental health. Estranged from her parents and working as a temp, Katrina Kim blurs the lines between reality and imagination. Driven by compulsive tendencies, she performs shape and number rituals, retreats into an imagined universe based on her favorite children's book, and obsesses over a co-worker named Kurt. After witnessing Kurt jump to his death, Katrina embarks on a search for answers that creates even more puzzles that unfold in a dreamlike unraveling. Speaking in the first-person present tense, Choi creates an intimate and twisty story featuring an unreliable narrator with a unique lens on the world. Choi's pacing and realistic characterizations keep listeners dizzily intrigued and eager to find out what happens. V.T.M. © AudioFile 2022, Portland, Maine [Published: DECEMBER 2022]