Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982

This novel is scheduled to be released in the US in April 2020 but I obtained an advance reading copy at a trade show. I was looking forward to reading another Korean novel in translation, but this was truly disappointing. It can be summarized as follows: Korea is still a terribly sexist country and professional women have an extremely hard time, especially if they are married with children, which is news to no one. The title character suffers this fate and has a breakdown. End of novel. The jacket blurb describes the prose as “eerie,” but I would call it dull, and I doubt this is a translation problem. I had hoped to write and place a review of this book in a magazine or newspaper, but I really have nothing good to say about it.