Swell

In Swell, acclaimed Korean writer Son Bo-mi brings together nine interconnected stories in which ordinary lives gradually slip into something stranger and less certain. Relationships fracture, people grieve and try to move forward, while familiar characters reappear with altered histories and events unfold differently across parallel possibilities. Blending everyday realism with playful, metafictional elements, Son blurs the boundaries between fact and fiction and explores how the stories we tell can shape our understanding of ourselves and others. Read individually, the stories capture intimate moments of contemporary life; together, they reveal a larger, mysterious pattern running beneath them.