
- 224 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
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About this book
A psychologist with a savior complex offers shelter to a recently cancelled K-pop idol in this “first great K-pop literary phenomenon” (Debutiful) that is perfect for fans of Mouth to Mouth and Black Buck.
Sang Duri is the eldest member and “visual” of a Korean boy band at the apex of global superstardom. But when his latest solo single accidentally leads to controversy, he’s abruptly canceled.
To spare the band from fallout with obsessive fans and overbearing management, Duri disappears from the public eye by hiding out in the McMansion of a Chinese American woman he meets in a Los Angeles H-Mart. But his rescuer is both unhappily married and a psychologist with a savior complex, a combination that makes their potential union seductive and incredibly problematic.
Meanwhile, in Seoul, the band’s music producer, Pinocchio, remembers his first brainchild: a girl group that tragically disbanded under mysterious circumstances.
The past and the present combine to ignite a spiral of violent interactions that might change the fates of both the band members and the music industry.
In its “gripping exploration of the complexities that accompany fame” (Booklist), The Band considers the many ways in which love and celebrity can devolve into something far more sinister.
Sang Duri is the eldest member and “visual” of a Korean boy band at the apex of global superstardom. But when his latest solo single accidentally leads to controversy, he’s abruptly canceled.
To spare the band from fallout with obsessive fans and overbearing management, Duri disappears from the public eye by hiding out in the McMansion of a Chinese American woman he meets in a Los Angeles H-Mart. But his rescuer is both unhappily married and a psychologist with a savior complex, a combination that makes their potential union seductive and incredibly problematic.
Meanwhile, in Seoul, the band’s music producer, Pinocchio, remembers his first brainchild: a girl group that tragically disbanded under mysterious circumstances.
The past and the present combine to ignite a spiral of violent interactions that might change the fates of both the band members and the music industry.
In its “gripping exploration of the complexities that accompany fame” (Booklist), The Band considers the many ways in which love and celebrity can devolve into something far more sinister.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Chapter 1: Canceled (Let’s Start at the End)
- Chapter 2: A Riddle
- Chapter 3: Upon Further Reflection
- Chapter 4: The Unnamed Unfortunate Event
- Chapter 5: Chateau Marmont
- Chapter 6: What Happens at Le Cinq Stays at Le Cinq
- Chapter 7: The Invisible Gorilla (D –6)
- Chapter 8: Duri, Duri
- Chapter 9: Therapy (D –5)
- Chapter 10: We All Saw It Coming
- Chapter 11: The Free World (D –4)
- Chapter 12: What Lennon Taught Us (D –3)
- Chapter 13: Antis (D –2)
- Chapter 14: Conditions without Cures (D –1)
- Chapter 15: Take Me to Church (D-Day)
- Chapter 16: Spiritual Gifts
- Chapter 17: The Lost & Found
- Epilogue/Aftermath
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Annotated Bibliography
- Copyright