I Have Lived a Life, and this is how I got here

"I love you not because we are family, but because we are comrades who survived the same hell." Lee Lang's sister told her this, but then her sister abandoned her and left Lee Lang forever.

The starting point of this book originated from a profound conversation between Korean singer-songwriter Lee Lang and her mother after Lee Lang was diagnosed with cancer. "Why did Mom bring me into this world?" What is the meaning of her own existence? Why has she, who embraces death every day, still made it this far?

With a violent father, a severely depressed mother, a disabled younger brother, and relatives who are all fraudsters, Lee Lang grew up with a lonely childhood and neglected emotions. On her journey to becoming an independent artist, she repeatedly brushed shoulders with death: her sister's suicide, the passing of her beloved cat, a close friend's illness, and the torment of her own mental dissociation. She was in unbearable pain, yet she couldn't bear to abandon everything.

"How should I pray?"
"Just sing and speak out what's in your heart."

So, she followed in her sister's footsteps, re-understanding her family's story; she spoke out for the vulnerable, challenging the rigid gender structure of Korean society; she bravely sang out against injustice, faced pain directly, fought for death, screamed for life, transforming endless whispers into songs.

For those who have been hurt by their original families, Lee Lang's writing is like a mirror, giving language to unspoken sorrows; for readers concerned with social gender and power structures, Lee Lang's words transcend the personal, finding an outlet to dismantle oppression and violence; and for everyone, Lee Lang's intimate writing offers solace, allowing personal stories to resonate with the times. Through honest and sharp writing, she finds her body and lands in the human world…

This book is for those who, despite everything, still want to believe that anything is possible; and for all beings who, despite everything, still choose to believe in love.

Someone let go of life, and I continue to live. Feeling the pain, living painfully because of that pain. I still want to disappear, but I also can't bear to lose my life, which is why I continue to live. My life is unique.
——Lee Lang

【Features of this book】
1. Global exclusive content. Uncut Korean direct translation, fully presenting Lee Lang's family entanglements.
2. Taiwan edition exclusive photography collection. Captures the world through Lee Lang's eyes and Lee Lang in the world.
3. Lee Lang's chronology. Important events from 0 to 39 years old, comprehensively understanding Lee Lang's life and creative history.
4. Ms. Kim Kyung-hyung (Lee Lang's mother)'s monologue, "Time Heals Us Like a Warm Ointment." Written over 7 months on 18 sheets of manuscript paper, it reveals her own words in response to Lee Lang's "A History of Madness Between Mother and Daughter."