"It's dark at dusk, but a ray of light still permeates. It's up to us to decide whether we'll leave this fragile light behind and head into the deep night, or brightly advance into the dawn."
——Lee Ha-na (Children's and Youth Literature Critic)

A coming-of-age fantasy about a girl destined to clear invisible dusks.

The main character – a teenage girl named Soyo inherits the family business of clearing away the dusk which normal people cannot see or feel. As she enters adolescence, Soyo grows increasingly weary of a reality in which she cannot help but see the dusk, and cracks begin to form in her relationships with family and friends. One day, she embarks on an adventure with Jeha who has the ability to read people’s personalities, and Yena who wields stickers that can manipulate memories. They are trying to prevent stolen dusks from being misused.
Soyo and her friends discover the existence of the Shapers, who collect stolen dusk and shape mysterious but very negative objects. It turns out that Soyo was born with a “rift” on her face that draws dusk toward her. To protect her, her parents made a deal with the Shapers and sealed the rift with a sticker. But as Soyo grows older, the sticker’s power fades, and the Shapers once again set their sights on her.

Through countless crises and difficult choices, Soyo learns to understand her friends and family, and ultimately discovers how to accept her destiny as part of herself.

Author: Kim Hye Jin

She writes YA novels and children’s stories, and also works as a translator. Her YA novels include The Real Fake Witness Account, We Are Searching for Our Faces, and There Is No Perfect Apology. She is also the author of the children’s book series The Wizard Gardaran and A Week at School. As a translator, she has brought works such as On the Rooftop and A Suspicious Kid Transferred to Our Class! into Korean.