The Eyes Are The Best Part

Name: The Eyes Are The Best Part
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SKU: 9781914240874
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The Sunday Times bestselling 'good for her' novel

By Monika Kim

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'I was enticed from the first line' — OYINKAN BRAITHWAITE, author of My Sister, the Serial Killer SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE 'An outstanding debut' — NEW YORK TIMES This feminist howl-of-a-debut is going to crawl right under your skin... Shortlisted for the Goodreads... Read More

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'I was enticed from the first line' — OYINKAN BRAITHWAITE, author of My Sister, the Serial Killer

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE

'An outstanding debut' — NEW YORK TIMES

This feminist howl-of-a-debut is going to crawl right under your skin...

Shortlisted for the Goodreads Choice Awards

New York Times Best Horror of 2024

TIME Top 100 Book of 2024

Google Play Top Read of 2024

Spotify Breakout Author of 2024

Kobo Best Audiobook of 2024

Ji-won's life is in disarray. Her father's affair has ripped the family to shreds, leaving her to piece their crappy lives back together.

Then her mother's new and obnoxious white boyfriend enters the scene, bragging about his knowledge of Korean culture and ogling Asian waitresses. As he gawks at her teenage sister around their claustrophobic apartment, Ji-won's grip on reality begins to slip.

She finds herself growing obsessed with the white boyfriend's brilliant blue eyeballs, resolving to do the one thing that will save her family — and curb her cravings...

'Violent, gruesome and wildly original' — NEW YORK TIMES

'Darkly funny' — FERN BRADY

'Utterly fantastic, female revenge horror at its finest' — WATERSTONES

'Smartly written... A promising calling card from a writer to watch' — THE BIG ISSUE

'A dark modern fairytale of female vengeance' — HARRIET WALKER

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781914240874

Publisher: Octopus Publishing Group

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 03 July 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: BRAZEN

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 126.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 247g

Pages: 288

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About the Author

Monika Kim is a second-generation Korean-American living in Los Angeles's Koreatown. She learned about eating fish eyes and other Korean superstitions from her mother, who immigrated to Los Angeles from Seoul in 1985.

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