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My Coffee Affair and Other Snacks is a collection of essays from Indonesia that is not easily accessible in Korea. Zulie, an accomplished translator and author, expresses seemingly trivial emotions of daily life through stories with which everyone can sympathize. Watercolor illustrations in the book further highlight the author’s youthful sensibilities, which are demonstrated in the short phrases and sentences written in diary-entry style. Although this book is based in the unique cultural context of Indonesia, readers will be mesmerized by its contents as though these were their own stories because the essays contain the universal emotions of love, parting, and growth. This book is guaranteed to relieve accumulated fatigue and stress with a cup of coffee. Zulie’s essays offer a glimpse of how our modern busy lifestyles appear to her.