by Soyoung Park
First published 2024
Chobahm spends her days in the frozen wasteland outside Snowglobe, working at the power plant that keeps the domed city running. She watches the twenty-four-hour broadcasts from inside the dome, especially Goh Around starring Goh Haeri, Snowglobe's most famous resident. The people under the dome live in warmth and luxury while everyone else struggles in perpetual winter. Their glamorous lives play out on screens for the desperate masses outside who dream of joining them as performers. When Haeri dies, Chobahm receives an impossible opportunity. She gets selected to enter Snowglobe and become Haeri's replacement. But once inside the dome, Chobahm discovers the televised version of life bears no resemblance to reality. The perfect society she worshipped from afar operates on deception. The truth about Snowglobe and its inhabitants remains elusive as Chobahm navigates a world where nothing matches what the cameras showed her.
Genres: science-fiction, dystopia, thriller, social-issues
Vibes: intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: dystopian-society, fish-out-of-water
Setting: Snowglobe
Period: 21st-century
384 pages · Hardcover · Delacorte Press