Almond by Won-Pyung Sohn

Author:Won-Pyung Sohn [Sohn, Won-Pyung]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: South Korean Literature, Childhood, Contemporary, Adult
ISBN: 9780062961402
Publisher: HarperVia
Published: 2020-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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The pizzeria didn’t report to the school. Professor Yun must’ve compensated them well. Back at school, that incident only existed in a form of rumor among some gossiping kids. Cold tension was in the air, but after a few days, everyone realized that nothing else was going to happen. Gon kept his head low, not meeting anyone’s eyes. His two sidekicks hung out with other groups and came nowhere near him. Eventually, Gon sat eating alone in the corner of the cafeteria and slept through classes instead of glaring at others. It didn’t take long for him to be downgraded from a troublemaker to a nobody. As Gon received less and less attention, so did I. The kids’ attention was always shifting to weirder, more exciting things. Nowadays, everybody was talking about a girl who’d passed the first round of a televised talent audition.

Officially, according to how the kids grouped us, Gon and I were each other’s “enemy.” It wasn’t a stretch, given our history. So, by unspoken agreement, Gon and I ignored each other at school. We neither talked nor made eye contact. We were just two of the components that made up the school, like pieces of chalk or erasers. No one could be truthful there.

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