Petty Lies

We Need to Talk About Kevin meets The Vegetarian in this chilling epistolary novel of four characters...
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Author: Sulmi Bak
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Petty Lies by Bak, Sulmi

Petty Lies

$26.79

Petty Lies

$26.79
Author: Sulmi Bak
Format: Paperback
Language: English
We Need to Talk About Kevin meets The Vegetarian in this chilling epistolary novel of four characters locked in a frightening cycle of vengeance and comeuppance.

Mira is a desperate young woman, hired by a wealthy single mother to tutor her lonesome son, Yuchan. But Mira is not who she presents herself to be; she is haunted by the death of her own family and motivated by the dark pulse of vengeance. Yuchan was cruel to Mira's mother. A kind of cruelty she can't ever forgive.

And then there is Jiwon, the boy's mother, a bad mother, Mira thinks--or so Jiwon tells herself she must not be.

But as Mira spends more time in the family's sprawling home, she begins to suspect Yuchan is not the culprit she's after. Someone else in the family has been pulling the strings. Someone with a deviant plan she can't begin to imagine.

Structured around four different letters and journal entries: Mira's, Jiwon's reply, Yuchan's younger brother's diary entry and, finally, Mira's own written recollection. Each new section brings us deeper into a web of cruelty, consequence, and closer to the truth.

Author: Sulmi Bak
Publisher: Mulholland Books
Published: 11/11/2025
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.60w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780316594486


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/08/2025
Booklist 10/01/2025
Kirkus Reviews 10/15/2025

About the Author
Sulmi Bak, born in 1984, majored in journalism and chose to become a novelist while preparing for examination for a top gaming company in Korea. Petty Lies is her debut novel, followed by two other stand-alone novels, The Silence of the Swan and Dalwhinnie Hotel.

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