I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki by Baek Sehee | Paperback

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📖 About this Book
I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki is Baek Sehee’s intimate memoir about living with persistent sadness, anxiety, self-doubt, and the exhausting gap between how someone appears on the outside and how they actually feel inside.
While working as a successful social media director at a publishing house, Baek begins seeing a psychiatrist. The book records twelve weeks of conversations with her psychiatrist, alongside personal reflections in which she examines her relationships, insecurities, habits, self-image, and the thought patterns that keep pulling her back into emotional distress.
The title captures the contradiction at the heart of the memoir beautifully: even during her lowest moments, Baek can still want something as ordinary and comforting as a bowl of tteokbokki. It is a quiet, candid book about mental health, therapy, self-awareness, and learning to live with complicated emotions rather than pretending they do not exist.
 
❤️ Why Sumaia Recommends It
★★★★☆
I really liked how honest and unpolished this book feels.
It does not try to turn mental health into a neat inspirational story where everything suddenly becomes better. Instead, it shows how complicated our thoughts can be, how easily we can be cruel to ourselves, and how healing often happens in very small steps.
Some of the conversations feel incredibly relatable, especially if you are someone who overthinks everything or appears completely fine while your mind is doing something entirely different.
A thoughtful, comforting read that makes you feel a little less alone.
 
✨ Perfect For
🧠 Readers interested in psychology and mental health
💭 Chronic overthinkers
📖 Memoir and reflective nonfiction readers
🤍 Anyone who likes quiet, introspective books
🌱 Readers interested in therapy and self-understanding
🇰🇷 Fans of contemporary Korean literature
 
📦 Product Details
Title: I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki
Author: Baek Sehee
Translator: Anton Hur
Format: Paperback
Condition: Brand New
Genre: Memoir / Psychology / Self-Reflection
Pages: 208
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing