After the family patriarch's irresponsibility shatters their balance, teen Marianne, her mother Hanna, and grandmother Alicia confront loss separately. Debt and absence expose the raw truth of a family unable to protect one another. Through Marianne's eyes, the novel intersects their lives of care, survival, and evasion, culminating in her runaway crisis. It probes family illusions amid generational tensions, focusing on life after collapse. Korean edition translated by Bo Ra Jeong.
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