As she plunges deeper into this psychosis, her discomfited husband sends her to a male psychiatrist. A thirtysomething-year-old "millennial everywoman," she has recently left her white-collar desk job-in order to care for her newborn daughter full-time-as so many Korean women are expected to do.īut she quickly begins to exhibit strange symptoms that alarm her husband, parents, and in-laws: Jiyoung impersonates the voices of other women-alive and even dead, both known and unknown to her. In a small, tidy apartment on the outskirts of the frenzied metropolis of Seoul lives Kim Jiyoung. Truly, flawlessly, completely, she became that person. Cho Nam-Joo transl., Jamie Chang, 2016 (2020, U.S.)Ī fierce international bestseller that launched Korea’s new feminist movement, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 follows one woman’s psychic deterioration in the face of rigid misogyny.
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