One Way to Every World

About this book

One Way to Every World is a quiet, forceful, idea driven novel about grief, physics, and the difference between finding and choosing. Seo Yun Ha is thirty eight, a hydrological engineer in Seoul, and the mother of Ha Eun, who was eleven. Six weeks after the funeral, standing in a stairwell she has used for nine years, Yun Ha takes a step and arrives somewhere that is Seoul and is not. The building is the same to the centimetre. The stairwell has one more landing. Her keys work. Her mother is alive in this world as she is in her own, and answers the phone in a voice with a cold in it, and does not know that anything has happened, and never will.