She Builds Peace E-zine

Upon its publication in 2016 in South Korea, the novel had an "Uncle Tom’s Cabin" effect.

Propelling the feminist wave, and it's easy to see why. The story of the novel's commonplace nature, sexism, and misogyny have been seen so normal that we forget to question it.

To summarize the novel, it's about a psychiatric case study of a woman named Kim Ji Young. She has a dissociative disorder which she becomes every woman she knows from time to time. Her husband said, “Jiyoung become different people from time to time. Some of them were living, others were dead, all of the women she knew. No matter how you looked at it, it wasn’t a joke or prank. Truly, flawlessly, completely, she becomes that person.”

30