Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 By Cho Nam-Joo
Book Excerpt :
A 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.Truly, flawlessly, completely, she became that person.In a small, tidy apartment on the outskirts of the frenzied metropolis of Seoul lives Kim Jiyoung. 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. But 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. As she plunges deeper into this psychosis, her discomfited husband sends her to a male psychiatrist.In a chilling, eerily truncated third-person voice, Jiyoung?s entire life is recounted to the psychiatrist?a narrative infused with disparate elements of frustration,
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