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ISBN10: 0593129482
ISBN13: 9780593129487
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: Apr 13 2021
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.65 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.95
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780593129487
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: Apr 13 2021
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.65 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.95
Language: English
A riveting debut novel set in contemporary Seoul, Korea, about four young women making their way in a world defined by impossible standards of beauty, after-hours room salons catering to wealthy men, ruthless social hierarchies, and K-pop mania
Powerful and provocative . . . a novel about female strength, spirit, resilience--and the solace that friendship can sometimes provide.--The Washington Post ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Time, NPR, Esquire, Bustle, BBC, New York Post, InStyle
Powerful and provocative . . . a novel about female strength, spirit, resilience--and the solace that friendship can sometimes provide.--The Washington Post ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Time, NPR, Esquire, Bustle, BBC, New York Post, InStyle
Kyuri is an achingly beautiful woman with a hard-won job at a Seoul room salon, an exclusive underground bar where she entertains businessmen while they drink. Though she prides herself on her cold, clear-eyed approach to life, an impulsive mistake threatens her livelihood. Kyuri's roommate, Miho, is a talented artist who grew up in an orphanage but won a scholarship to study art in New York. Returning to Korea after college, she finds herself in a precarious relationship with the heir to one of the country's biggest conglomerates. Down the hall in their building lives Ara, a hairstylist whose two preoccupations sustain her: an obsession with a boy-band pop star, and a best friend who is saving up for the extreme plastic surgery that she hopes will change her life. And Wonna, one floor below, is a newlywed trying to have a baby that she and her husband have no idea how they can afford to raise in Korea's brutal economy. Together, their stories tell a gripping tale at once unfamiliar and unmistakably universal, in which their tentative friendships may turn out to be the thing that ultimately saves them.
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