this novella length book, is a realistic view into the everyday life of women growing up in korea.

it shows the sexism, the bullying, the clear oppression of female roles -from hindering the hiring process, to being utterly underpayed, to being pressured into the mother role and being forced from all sides to leave leave anything that’s not perfect mother or wife behind.

what o found utterly sad about this entire book is that it’s not something any women can read and not find at least a handful - more at least half - of the mentioned sexistic moments as something they have experience themselves.

from being sexualized as children, to being blamed for the unwanted advances, being showed into a „female“ role and looked at strangely if the woman actually voices complains about it....

and while i do wished that the book would have ended better, with a nice ending for the main character... it’s a very realistic ending, where a man sees the problems and issues but rather then trying to help bring change, he’s almost more complaining about the issues women bring because of all the sexism.

so on many ways it’s a very frustrating book. but it’s so realistic and real that it’s clearly very well done!

be prepared to be frustrated when reading this, but also feel so seen.