Part 1

Sleep · Ticket · Sleep · Influence · Room · Purple · Breath · Shining Sky Aunt · Taste of Soy Sauce · Sleep · Artery · Sweet and Sticky · Real and Fake · Tear Spot · Ramen · Shining · Room · Two Hundred Won · Fortune

Part 2

Knife and scissors · Me · Small and low · Round pain · ^.^ · Room · Sleep · Shining white · Scene · Hand · Fire

Part 3

Indoor quiet · Do what you want · Cheek · Sample · Break time · Sleep · Winter night · Far · Only · Only · What's left of the ride · Room · Only · Only · Room · Only · Write down · Face

Epilogue
Author's Note

"wake up.
Now it's time to be you again.”

One winter, the protagonist, Najin, heads to Gwangju after receiving a call from her aunt asking if she could take care of her grandmother for a few days.
“It could be as short as three days, but it could be as long?” With that, Aunt leaves to go snowboarding, and Najin begins living with her grandmother.
As each day passes by quietly, Najin looks back on the past ten years she has spent here.

So, that room was a 'temporary room'.
A room where things that don't need to be looked at often are piled up.
A few cardboard boxes that were in that room were taken out, and a few cardboard boxes containing my clothes were put in.
So I temporarily became a member of this house.
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When Najin was ten years old, her parents divorced and she was left with her grandmother, who lived with her aunt.
Najin, who had to figure out the rules of the house on her own because no one taught her the rules, grew up watching her aunt instead of her mother.
My aunt, who was in her late twenties and worked at a department store.
Although Najin's aunt was not interested in her and was distant from her family, Najin grew up following in her footsteps without realizing it.

There was no reply from my aunt until late at night.
When I went into the messenger app, I saw that the message I had sent was unread.
The next day I called my aunt.
A voice message was heard saying that the call had been suspended.
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Najin, who was living an ordinary life, becomes anxious during a conversation with her friend Gyeong-eun that her aunt may not return.
Additionally, she realizes that her aunt, who had said she would return in about three days, has not returned for over ten days.
Najin, who went for a walk to think about something else and went into the local library to read a book, put the book aside, opened a notebook, and began to write, thinking of her aunt.
Has her aunt gone forever? Unsure of the answer, Najin writes as if she's transcribing stories she's heard from her aunt, and cares for her grandmother.

Fighting fiercely without any clashing language
A passionate reconciliation without any hugging scenes

Can't we transfer this temperature?
I thought that as I was sucked into the entrance of the dream.
It might be possible in a dream.
In my dream, I will have a very big and nice notebook.
You will have a magic pen that can write down scents and temperatures.
And I have to write all of this down.
You have to remember.
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This work does not have a grand narrative where the world changes due to the character's choices or the character is caught up in a grand destiny.
But in the empty spaces of quiet stories, it reflects our faces like a mirror.
As readers follow the growth of a character presented in restrained sentences, they will be reminded that “growing up is not something you do alone, but something you do with someone.” (Novelist Lee Ki-ho) In this way, this work connects the characters inside and outside the novel, changing our daily lives.
“My Sleeping Face” tells us that this is the most important role that literature must and can play.