Saying Goodbye

What if the dead could text you? Park Jin-woo is barely surviving in Seoul-trapped in a closet-sized gosiwon, living on convenience store ramyeon, and grinding through video games at 3 AM while his dreams fade into static. At twenty-four, he has a coding bootcamp certificate he can't use and an internet connection that cuts out every twenty minutes. Then he downloads NetFlow, a mysterious app promising to fix his terrible Wi-Fi. Instead, it connects him to his grandmother-who died two years ago."Jinwoo-ya, you're eating ramyeon again? Your stomach will suffer." Through this impossible app, the dead can finally reach the living. And they're desperate to talk. A restaurant owner's daughter needs her mother's secret recipe before the business fails. A man's cherished cat waits alone in a shelter, confused and abandoned. A brilliant student's unfinished thesis sits on a forgotten laptop, her life's work about to vanish. The messages flood in-hundreds of spirits with final words, unfinished business, and love that death couldn't erase. Jin-woo never asked to be a bridge between worlds. But in a city of ten million people where everyone is connected yet everyone is alone, maybe helping the dead say goodbye is exactly what Seoul needs. And maybe-in delivering their messages-he'll finally find his own purpose. A tender, bittersweet story about grief, connection, and the messages that transcend death. For readers who loved Along with the Gods, The Tiger That Time Forgot, and stories that remind us love never truly ends. "Some connections are stronger than death. Sometimes all we need is someone who will listen."