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      LOOKING AT THESE PICTURES I START WONDERING: how does a person show improvement with age? People say one matures with time, but how does it manifest? Does the energy in one’s eyes change? Does one grow more considerate toward others? Does one show more humility? More self-control? Become more patriotic? As I age, will I become more patient and cultivate a loving attitude toward others? Will I become selfless? Will that really happen just because of age? I remember the day my high school principal retired. It was a particularly hot day and the sun was blazing. During the retirement ceremony the students were told to stand in an open field with no shade, while the principal, and only the principal, got an awning over his head. He went on and on about his accomplishments. People like to say teaching is selfless and noble, but he seemed pretty self-absorbed, oblivious to the students’ wish for his speech to end so we could clap a bit and head back into the classroom. I don’t even remember that oblivious asshole’s name. What does it mean to become a “grown-up?” How does one go about doing that, growing up? Will I just become like my parents? I’d like to know if I can actually become a better person. Will I survive long enough to look back at my life and reflect on it fondly?

      ALSO AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH BY KIM YIDEUM

       Cheer Up, Femme Fatale

      Translated by Jiyoon Lee, Don Mee Choi, & Johannes Göransson

       Hysteria

      Translated by Jake Levine, Soeun Seo, & Hedgie Choi

      BLOOD SISTERS

      Kim Yideum

      TRANSLATED FROM THE KOREAN

      BY JIYOON LEE

      Deep Vellum publishing

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      Blood Sisters © 2011 Kim Yideum

      Original Korean edition published by Munhakdongne Publishing Group

      English translation rights arranged with Munhakdongne Publishing Group

      Translation Copyright © 2019 by Jiyoon Lee

      First edition, 2019

      All rights reserved.

      ISBN: 978-1-941920-77-0 (paperback) | 978-1-941920-78-7 (ebook)

      LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER: 2019937124

      Blood Sisters is published under the support of Literature Translation Institute of Korea (LTI Korea).

      Text set in Bembo, a typeface modeled on typefaces cut by Francesco Griffo for Aldo Manuzio’s printing of De Aetna in 1495 in Venice.

      Cover design by Anna Zylicz | annazylicz.com

      Typesetting by Kirby Gann

      Distributed by Consortium Book Sales & Distribution.

      Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper.

      CONTENTS

       Translator’s Note

       PART I

       Blue Stockings

       Instant Days

       Zarathustra

       Aldebaran

       Blue Moon

       Virus Complex

       Merry Gloomy Christmas

       PART II

       Death Mask

       Alibi

       Pendulum

       Hitchhiker

       Wedding Cake

       Matryoshka

       Proxima Centauri

       Face-Off

       PART III

       Formaldehyde

       Übermensch

       Metamorphosis

       Hey Hey Hey

       Plastic Fish

       Crossword Puzzle

       Spare Tire

       Bruschetta con Formaggio e Miele & a Lollipop

       Stop, Stop

       PART IV

       Interview

       Amazing Grace

       Algorithm

       Russian Blue

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