Book Box: Gifts for Brothers, Sisters, and Friends

When I was growing up, I had an impossible item on my wish list. Sibling Book 2 of 3: An Elder Brother to Follow Becoming. Read this riveting book for the power and hope of friendships in it, as the three friends try gamely to pull Jude back into life and living, spending time conversing and cooking together, experiencing life in its small pleasures. Five women in Seoul tell their stories in this fascinating book — Ara is a hairstylist, Miho an American-educated artist, Kyuri, a high-end salon girl, Sujin a low-end salon girl who is desperate to have plastic surgery, and Wonna, a married woman yearning for a baby. The story of 32-year-old cookbook writer Nina Dean, who is looking for love on a dating app, it also features her friends — childhood “smug married” frenemy Katherine and bestie Lola, who is the kind of late night friend you can call on to dissect the real meaning of a text from a potential boyfriend.