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\"Girl<\/a>*STARRED REVIEW<\/strong>
\nCredited with revitalizing Korea\u2019s publishing industry, Shin\u2019s 2011 Please Look After Mom<\/a><\/em> (the author\u2019s debut in English) made this international powerhouse the first woman to win the Man Asian Literary Prize<\/a>. Her latest, arriving stateside 20 years after its Korean publication, is part memoir, part portrait-of-an-artist-as-a-teenager, and part writing treatise.<\/p>\n

Shin is the eponymous girl at 16, sent from her village to live in a \u201clone room\u201d in Seoul with her oldest brother and cousin to work tedious hours in an electronics factory for the opportunity to attend high school at night. Korea in 1978 is an economically and politically unstable country whose youth will pay the highest price for the phenomenal success to come.<\/p>\n

Sixteen years later, Shin\u00a0is an established writer, contacted by a former classmate: \u201cYou don\u2019t write about us\u2026 Could it be you\u2019re ashamed?\u201d The years of elision yield to fraught memories: her reclamation of her own name and age, her tenuous relationships, the teacher who gifted her with a book and the belief she could be the novelist she would become.<\/p>\n

Verdict<\/strong>: Girl<\/em>\u00a0stands the test of time. Isolation and suicide among young adults worldwide have only tragically multiplied, making Girl<\/em> urgently auspicious. Described at beginning and end as \u201cnot quite fact and not quite fiction,\u201d this book is essential reading.<\/p>\n

Review<\/strong>: “Fiction,” Library Journal,<\/em> October 15, 2015<\/a><\/p>\n

Published<\/strong>: 1995 (South Korea), 2015 (United States)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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