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Mona's perfect world is shattered by sudden and serious illness - leaving her searching her past for answers. Fate has led her from a tough Brooklyn girlhood to a happy marriage with a wonderful man, but what has she forgotten along the way? In this classic New York novel of the 1980s, as Mona struggles to understand her own life story, she uncovers the shocking memory of a murder and traces the shape of her own mortality.

Will Matthews came to Wall Street with hopes and dreams of hitting it big, but is on the verge of being fired. Then he meets the fabulously wealthy Sam Abaddon. Winning Sam’s business answers Will’s prayers, catapulting the young stockbroker into the privileged world of money and luxury. Not only that, but Will also has met his dream girl. But when Will witnesses a shocking act of violence, his charmed new existence is revealed to be a waking nightmare as the truth about his benefactor - and his own complicity in criminal conduct - becomes devastatingly clear.

Betsy Ruscoe, a single university professor in her mid-30s, is pregnant, and the man she thought she loved is not interested in fatherhood. At the same time, her dying mother begs Betsy to find the woman who gave her up for adoption at birth 50 years ago and then disappeared. Betsy struggles to cope with the changes in her life as she also sets out on a quest to uncover her mother's surprising history.

김희진 작가의 다섯 번째 장편소설 『얼마나 이상하든』. 작가는 『옷의 시간들』 『양파의 습관』 『두 방문객』 등을 통해 이별로 인한 상실과 결핍, 그럼에도 불구하고 현재를 살아갈 수 있게 하는 힘인 '사람과 사람 사이의 관계'에 대해 꾸준히 조명해왔다. 신작 『얼마나 이상하든』에서는 더욱 깊이 있고 생동감 넘치게 다양한 삶과 관계의 형태를 그려낸다.