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Guidelines for Raising Bread Bugs

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>>>This book is written in Korean.

About This Book

Kim Hye-young’s debut full-length novel, Guidelines for Raising Bread Bugs, has been published as part of Safehouse Originals. The novel was first introduced to readers at the 2026 Seoul International Book Fair, where the entire initial print run prepared for the event sold out. The phrase “Guidelines for Raising Bread Bugs” refers to a set of rules that appears within the story itself. The moment those rules are broken, the novel begins to reveal a very different side of itself.

Jeong-han, the protagonist, once struggled to make a living as an unknown trumpet player before debt drove him to abandon city life and take up farming in the countryside. His ambitious attempt to grow strawberries ends in disastrous failure, leaving him with nowhere else to turn. His last chance at a fresh start comes in the form of a farming venture involving a newly discovered edible larva known as the “bread bug.” Identical to freshly baked salt bread in both appearance and taste, these high-protein, flour-free delicacies ride a nationwide dessert craze and propel Jeong-han into the ranks of high earners.

But his reversal of fortune proves neither lasting nor smooth. Oversupply, plummeting prices, and violations of rules that no one fully anticipated push the rural community into an unforeseen crisis. Guidelines for Raising Bread Bugs vividly portrays how the sweet abundance born of human greed begins to unravel, exposing the precarious line between prosperity and catastrophe.

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