She takes a badly needed job working for ex?Master of the Universe Will Traynor, who is wheelchair bound after an accident. Louisa Clark is an ordinary girl living an exceedingly ordinary life?steady boyfriend, close family?who has barely been farther afield than their tiny village. But can her doctor cure her, or even discover what truly ails her? Rendered in eerie prose, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 announces the arrival of a major international writer'- Provided by publisher.Ī New York Times bestseller?with more than one million copies sold?by the author of One Plus One and The Girl You Left Behind They had nothing in common until love gave them everything to lose. As she plunges deeper into this psychosis, Jiyoung's concerned husband sends her to a psychiatrist, who listens to her narrate her own life story-from her birth to a family who expected a son, to elementary school teachers who policed girls' outfits, to male coworkers who installed hidden cameras in women's restrooms and posted the photos online.

Truly, flawlessly, completely, she became that very person. Her husband, however, worries over a strange symptom that has recently appeared: Jiyoung has begun to impersonate the voices of other women-dead and alive, both known and unknown to her. In a small, tidy apartment on the outskirts of the frenzied metropolis of Seoul, KimJiyoung-a millennial 'everywoman'-spends her days caring for her infant daughter. 'The runaway bestseller that helped launch Korea's new feminist movement, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 follows one woman's psychic deterioration in the face of rigid misogyny.

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