The Midnight Shift by Cheon Seon-Ran
Content Warnings: death, murder, violence, blood, vampirism, suicide, loneliness and social isolation, aging and elderly characters, queer longing and unfulfilled desire, grief, period-typical homophobia (1980s flashbacks), emotional manipulation At its core, this is a book about the kind of loneliness that persists even in a life filled with relationships. I read it on honeymoon—almost a year late because of cancer treatments—and understood immediately what Cheon Seon-Ran's vampires were hunti…