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Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982


A General Fiction Novel

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A global sensation, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 follows one woman's psychic deterioration in the face of rampant misogyny.

In a tidy apartment on the outskirts of Seoul, millennial "everywoman" Kim Jiyoung spends her days caring for her infant daughter.

But strange symptoms appear: Jiyoung begins to impersonate the voices of other women, dead and alive.

As she plunges deeper into this psychosis, her concerned husband sends her to a psychiatrist.

Jiyoung narrates her story to this doctor—from her birth to parents who expected a son to elementary school teachers who policed girls' outfits to male coworkers who installed hidden cameras in women's restrooms.

But can her psychiatrist cure her, or even discover what truly ails her?

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