Highway with Green Apples by Bae SuahMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
A beautifully written novella. I almost want to reread it.
Like her other novels, time is relative here. This novel is actually more straightforward in a way, but things get mixed up, whether due to faulty memory (she even admits as much at one point) or due to stream of consciousness.
The narrator starts with talking about taking a car trip with her (then) partner toward a fishing village on the west coast. They have just stopped to buy some green apples from an old lady on the road. This leads to the rest of the story, a mixture of events and reminiscences, with a not-necessarily happy ending, but very insightful and poignant at times.
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