Fool's Love

Fool's Love (바보 같은 사랑)

Brad and Jingui met during their first week of graduate school. She was a young Korean mathematics student, brilliant, stubborn, and careful with her heart. He was industrious, romantic, and foolish enough to believe that love could solve what life had already made difficult.

But Jingui had a life waiting for her in Korea. She had family expectations, an engagement she did not want, and fears Brad did not understand soon enough. Their love became a secret, then a promise, then a wound neither of them knew how to heal.

Fool's Love (바보 같은 사랑) is not a traditional romance novel. It is a memoir of first love, cultural distance, tenderness, regret, and a romance already strained by secrecy, family duty, fear, and timing. It is the story of two people who loved each other, but could not find the courage or trust to become each other's future. Readers should expect a difficult, intimate story that may leave them feeling moved, frustrated, sympathetic, unsettled, and sad.