- Illustrates the tiny decisions, social pressures, logical rationalizations that lead women down that path.
- Stories of horrors that women face, illustrated in stories.
- Helps readers understand this life.
- Fictional, but sort of autobiographical, sort of research-based.
Fun Factoids:
- Praised by several K-Pop idols, including BTS' leader RM
- Made into a movie (in Korean), 2019 : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11052808/
- Cho Nam Joo, the author, was a TV scriptwriter for 9 years.
- Guardian Q&A with the author: https://tinyurl.com/k5snn5jc
- Book reads easily and story-led, like a TV show. Short, quick read.
- Published in 2016, Bestseller in Korea, addresses gender inequality during #MeToo in Korea.
- Controversial. A female member of a K-Pop was targeted for just mentioning that she was reading this book. https://tinyurl.com/4yk2jsvh
- Translated into 18 languages.
Notes for Future :
- Translated by Jamie Chang.
- p14: The combination of tone, expression, angle of head tilt, position of shoulders, and her breathing sent them a message that was hard to summarize in one sentence, but, if Jiyoung tried anyway, it went something like this: How dare you try to take something that belongs to my precious grandson!
- to be contd.