Holy Boy

A K-Pop idol with legions of adoring disciples, Yosep is the fallen angel of the music industry. Impossibly beautiful, his perfection inspires a near-religious devotion in his fans. But for an elect few, this dedication will spill over into delusion. Four fans - Mihee, Nami, Heeae and their ringleader Ahnna - hatch a plot to satiate their shared hunger: kidnap. Plagued by paranoia, and with their grip on reality slowly loosening, the women use increasingly disturbing strategies to keep Yosep in their possession. As they plunge into a hallucinatory hellfire of betrayal and murder in the name of their beloved, the group threaten to drag this young angel into the flames with them . . . Holy Boy is a thrilling novel that defies expectations until the final page with its deadly puzzle-box of literary tricks. An astonishing indictment of contemporary celebrity and parasocial desire, Holy Boy is the tale of one life told through the bloody kaleidoscope of unstoppable obsession.