Two gripping literary thrillers where memory deceives, truth hides in plain sight and justice is dangerously subjective. In Sweet Fury, Sash Bischoff spins a razor-sharp psychological thriller set against the glamorous, cutthroat world of Hollywood. As beloved actress Lila Crayne prepares for a role in a feminist adaptation of Tender Is the Night, therapy sessions meant to unlock her past instead open the door to manipulation, revenge, and a dangerously blurred line between performance and reality. Across the globe, The Good Son by You-Jeong Jeong (dubbed “Korea’s Stephen King”) offers an electrifying exploration of fractured memory and guilt. When Yu-jin wakes up to find his mother brutally murdered, he has no memory of the night before—and the deeper he digs into his past, the darker the truth becomes.
Moderated by Roland Gulliver.
Korean Interpreter: Jennifer (Ye Won) Kim
Jeong’s appearance is generously supported by LTI – Literature Translation Institute of Korea.
Generously supported by The Gerald Schwartz & Heather Reisman Foundation.
Fates and Furies meets The Silent Patient when movie star Lila Crayne and her film director fiancé embark on a feminist adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender Is the Night, prompting Lila to excavate her past in preparation for her leading role—but in doing so, she becomes entangled in a deadly game of revenge in which everyone, on screen and off, is playing a part.
Lila Crayne is America’s sweetheart: she’s generous and kind, gorgeous and magnetic, and she’s loved the whole world over.
“Ingeniously twisted.” —Entertainment Weekly, “Must List”
“Will leave even the most seasoned crime fiction readers guessing.” —CrimeReads
"[Jeong] maintains suspense about her inhuman-seeming protagonist's fate until the bitter end.” —The Wall Street Journal
Finalist for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon’s “Summer Reads” Book Club
The Talented Mr. Ripley meets The Bad Seed in this breathless, chilling psychological thriller by the #1 bestselling novelist known as “Korea's Stephen King”
Who can you trust if you can't trust yourself?
Early one morning, twenty-six-year-old Yu-jin wakes up to a strange metallic smell, and a phone call from his brother asking if everything's all right at home – he missed a call from their mother in the middle of the night.
Sash Bischoff is a writer and theatre director. She has written plays that have been developed at theatres throughout the US.
You-Jeong Jeong is a Korean novelist. She won the inaugural Segye Youth Literary Award in 2007 with her first novel and the 5th Segye Ilbo Literary Award with Shoot Me in the Heart in 2009.
Sat, June 28, 2025
A book signing will follow this event
Emmanuel College, Room 119
75 Queen's Park Crescent, Toronto, ON
