Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982

Well! I'm probably gonna need to read something REAL fluffy after this! This short book was surprisingly depressing and unsettling. Like, I finished over my lunch break and then just sat there because HUH, that ... is disturbing.

I wish I had gotten a bit more of Jiyoung's personality throughout, but by the end, it made sense why that was not provided. I also wished that there had been more exploration of her multiple-voices thing that was introduced at the beginning; I thought there would be more of that after we got her life story, why she was having the issues she was having, and HOO BOY, get ready to RAGE about some patriarchal bullshit! It's pretty shocking, and also sad that it isn't that shocking in Korea. Women put up with a lot of crap everywhere, but I felt so crummy for Jiyoung, for stay-at-home mothers, for women in the workforce. It was all just terrible. And I didn't know it was terrible.

A good read, but yeah. Depressing and unsettling. 3.5 stars.