About the Book…
We will wash away your pain and iron away any creases in your heart.
Overnight, in the village of Marigold on top of a hill, old Jieun has conjured up a magical Mind Laundry, where she cleanses painful experiences from her customer’s hearts, transferring them into stains on a T-shirt and transforming them into dazzling red petals.
We meet five of Jieun’s customers to her laundry: a frustrated young filmmaker; a tortured social-media influencer; a distraught mother who has discovered her husband’s other family; a young woman two-timed by her lover, and Yeonghui, a victim of bullying, who works as a delivery man to escape his pain in routine.
After washing away their pain and ironing out their creases, Jieun discovers an astonishing revelation about memory, pain and moving on.
About the Author…
Jungeun Yun (Author)
Jungeun Yun is the author of more than ten books, including Live the Way You Want; Even If I Don’t Know How to Be an Adult and To Travel or To Love. Yun believes that writing is self-reflection, a close examination of emotions; to write is to connect. Yun hosts a podcast The Path of Books with Jungeun Yun. Her debut novel Marigold Mind Laundry has been a Top Five bestseller in Korea and an international bestseller. It is translated into ten languages and is due to be published around the world. Jungeun Yun lives in Korea.
Shanna Tan (Translator)
Shanna Tan is a literary translator working from Korean, Chinese and Japanese into English. Her translations include the bestselling Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-reum. Born and raised in Singapore, she is currently spending some time in Bangkok.
