A difficult one for me to rate and review. It's an important feminist critique on the lives of women in South Korea from birth to adulthood (motherhood). It is, however, incredibly dry for a large portion with longer chapters (unusual for a novella) that do drag a little.

However, the adulthood section I found I was most engaged in, and then the 2016 chapter makes it all click as you understand and ultimately then forgive the dry narrative style.

As a novella I'm glad to have read it and I feel that it did what it needed with that page count. Any longer and I would have struggled. Rating it ultimately 3.75* but rounding up to four as it has a really important theme and message that will likely resonate with many many women worldwide.