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  • Location: Seoul

The Healing Season of Pottery

The Healing Season of Pottery

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2024: A story about the rejuvenating power of pottery!

  • ISBN: 978-0241698709
  • Translator: Clare Richards
  • Genre: Fiction, Translated Fictioin

What you need to know before your trail

She rubbed the spoiled clay with her fingertips. Like a wound as it heals, the traces faded, and had soon vanished completely, as if they’d never been there at all.

Burnt out by her newswriting job, Jungmin abruptly quits; she’s worked tirelessly for years and she needs to make a change.

Now, after months of hibernation, it’s time to put her life back together. Venturing out into the streets near Seoul, she stumbles upon the Soyo pottery workshop. Drawn in by its light and warmth, and the smell of clay and coffee, Jungmin feels something unfurl within her…

Travel Guide

Anywhere where you can make your own pottery!

This is a balm of a book for the soul. Set in Seoul too – with the Soyo workshop being the place where the characters find the calmness in life and they try to reset.

This is a gentle novel but one very firmly set in the world of crafts, pottery and healing.

BookTrail Boarding Pass:  The Healing Season of Pottery

Destination/Location: Seoul   Author: Yeon Somin     Departure: 2000s

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