5/21/2023 0 Comments Shoplifter by Michael ChoPart of the book is about what happens to people who graduate college with humanities degrees, or people who are creative and well-educated but stuck in a rut and unable to figure out how to move forward with their lives. Yeah, I'd agree with that, but it's the story of a certain group of people in their 20's - young, well educated and urban. She's also questioning what the worth of her day job really is.Īs much as the book is the story of a character, it also feels like a book about what it's like to be in your mid-late twenties. She's feeling a kind of creeping desperation as she feels like she's treading water and not moving forward with her ambitions. At the start of the story, Corrina is working for a large ad agency as a copywriter.She's been there for almost five years and the initial excitement of her job has long worn off. Michael Cho: Corrina Park, the main character in "Shoplifter," is a young, well-educated woman who went to college with dreams of becoming a novelist.
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