SISTERS, NOODLES, LOVE AND SEX: THE MOST MEMORABLE READ OF 2027
Buy Ferris 40th birthday party present. Real one. She does not want potato gun.
Henley is 44, unemployed and three times divorced.
Ferris, 39, a high-flying doctor with a stunning home and the perfect husband.
Forced to move back to her childhood home, Henley stumbles into unlikely success online when her provocative noodle-eating videos go viral, bringing her the money she needs to adopt a baby and exactly the kind of attention that could make it impossible.
Ferris, Henley’s younger sister, has done everything right: she’s got an incredible career, a successful husband and the life their mother always wanted for her. But after years of gruelling, unsuccessful fertility treatments, one decision sends her marriage into freefall.
Two wildly different sisters experiencing spectacular midlife implosions, both women grapple with moving back home as adults, the expectations of the local Korean church community and their mother’s dreams for them.
Irrepressibly funny, tender, and alive, Unwanted Attention is a wholly original novel about failure and reinvention, mothers and daughters, cultural inheritance, and the people who drive us crazy because they know us best.
Buy Ferris 40th birthday party present. Real one. She does not want potato gun.
Henley is 44, unemployed and three times divorced.
Ferris, 39, a high-flying doctor with a stunning home and the perfect husband.
Forced to move back to her childhood home, Henley stumbles into unlikely success online when her provocative noodle-eating videos go viral, bringing her the money she needs to adopt a baby and exactly the kind of attention that could make it impossible.
Ferris, Henley’s younger sister, has done everything right: she’s got an incredible career, a successful husband and the life their mother always wanted for her. But after years of gruelling, unsuccessful fertility treatments, one decision sends her marriage into freefall.
Two wildly different sisters experiencing spectacular midlife implosions, both women grapple with moving back home as adults, the expectations of the local Korean church community and their mother’s dreams for them.
Irrepressibly funny, tender, and alive, Unwanted Attention is a wholly original novel about failure and reinvention, mothers and daughters, cultural inheritance, and the people who drive us crazy because they know us best.
Reviews
Sharp, hilarious, and full of surprises, Unwanted Attention proves addictive from page one. Nania Lee's debut showcases her deft storytelling while serving up a rich, flavorful stew of delicious zingers and slow-burning questions when it comes to sisterhood, motherhood, and womanhood. I absolutely loved this book
Genuinely subversive... about sisterhood, motherhood, and womanhood. Henley and Ferris, sisters, seem like polar opposites. While Henley is chaotic, uninhibited, financially unstable, and ironically eager to become a mother, Ferris is disciplined, wealthy, married, and outwardly the perfect candidate for motherhood... One of the great pleasures of Unwanted Attention is simply how funny and enjoyable it is... a surprisingly tender and big-hearted novel about two sisters discovering that there may be no correct way to be a woman, build a family, or make a meaningful life
A banger of a debut. A hilarious, inventive, and at times heartbreaking tale of maternal and sisterly love. I slurped it right up
Nania Lee navigates the lingering regrets and messy absurdities of middle age with terrific precision and wit. Unwanted Attention is a sharp, wry yet tender tribute to how we survive our families, and how we love them
A funny yet tender exploration of two very different sisters, each with their own set of expectations. Lee writes her characters' interior worlds with deep affection and thought... sharp and insightful