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Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982<\/strong><\/a> by Cho Nam-Joo and translated by Jamie Chang<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cho\u2019s narrative is part bildungsroman<\/em> and part Wikipedia entry. She opens with \u201cAugust, 2015,\u201d immediately divulging the fragile mental state of her titular Kim Jiyoung, who now as a wife and mother has developed the disturbing tendency to suddenly become other people she\u2019s known, both living and dead. Through four chronological milestones \u2013 childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, and marriage \u2013 Cho presents what happened in the prior 33 years that actuated Jiyoung\u2019s \u201cabnormal behavior\u201d; each period is marked by gross misogyny, from microaggressions to bullying to abuse to unrelenting dismissal. Her final chapter, presented as Jiyoung\u2019s therapist\u2019s report \u2013 his claims of being \u201caware\u201d and \u201cenlightened\u201d only damning him further as an entitled troll \u2013 proves to be narrative genius.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arriving stateside already an international best-seller, this debut novel from television scriptwriter Cho has been credited with helping to \u201claunch Korea\u2019s new feminist movement.\u201d The fact that gender inequity is insidiously pervasive throughout the world should guarantee immediate resonance beyond cultures and borders. To further challenge and investigate this global phenomenon, check out these international titles.

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Braised Pork<\/a><\/strong> by An Yu<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chen Hang is facedown in the bathtub when his wife, Jia Jia, discovers his naked corpse. Married for four years, their intended \u201clifelong partnership\u201d didn\u2019t include love, at least not for each other. After vomiting her \u201cinsuppressible resentment and disgust,\u201d Jia Jia finds a pencil drawing of a fish with a human head, clearly sketched by Chen Hang. She\u2019s inspired to reclaim her pre-marriage artist identity and attempts to paint the otherworldly fish-man into understanding. She attempts an uncertain affair with a local bartender, possible reconciliation with her runaway father, and experiences unexpected revelations about her late mother. Beijing born-and-raised An Yu transforms her home city into an affecting backdrop as she exposes and confronts the detachment between those meant to be most connected.

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Convenience Store Woman<\/a><\/strong> by Sayaka Murata and translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite having \u201ca normal family,\u201d Keiko \u201cwas a rather strange child\u201d who learned quiet detachment to avoid further trouble. At 18, she\u2019s \u201creborn as a convenience store worker\u201d at a newly opened Smile Mart. Donning a uniform, learning the manual, and mimicking her coworkers enable Keiko to become \u201ca normal cog in society.\u201d Eighteen years later, she remains a top-performing employee, but at 36, her being a single woman in a dead-end job elicits worry and judgment from family and acquaintances. To deflect unwanted meddling, Keiko \u201cadopts\u201d an arrogant wastrel with both comical and bittersweet results. Murata\u2019s dazzling English-language debut \u2013 in a crisp translation by Takemori \u2013 is rich in scathingly entertaining observations on identity, perspective, and the suffocating hypocrisy of \u201cnormal\u201d society.

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Educated<\/a><\/strong> by Tara Westover<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the youngest of seven children born to a junkyard-tending father and midwife-herbalist mother in remote Idaho, Westover realizes at seven the single fact \u201cthat makes [her] family different: we don\u2019t go to school.\u201d Her family espouses Mormonism, although their practices tend toward isolated fundamentalism. Her father\u2019s distrust of government, doctors, and education left Westover without a birth certificate or medical and school records. Neglect and abuse were common. Encouraged by a brother who got out, Westover entered her first-ever classroom at 17 as a Brigham Young University freshman. Basic history \u2013 the Holocaust, civil rights movement \u2013 was yet unknown to her. She progresses to Cambridge, Harvard, and back to Cambridge, where she earns a history PhD. A Mormon metamorphosis memoir is such a rarity that readers will undoubtedly be drawn to getting Educated<\/em>.

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The Testaments<\/a><\/strong> by Margaret Atwood<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Testaments begins 15 years after The Handmaid Tale\u2019s conclusion, with Aunt Lydia as the most significant continuing character. \u201cIf you are reading,\u201d she addresses us directly, \u201cthis manuscript at least will have survived.\u201d As Aunt Lydia exposes the machinations of Gilead\u2019s elite and how they engender its destruction, Witness 369A (aka Agnes Jemina) and Witness 369B (aka Daisy) take turns revealing the world outside. Agnes matures from a trusting innocent in Gilead\u2019s suffocating society to a tenacious survivor and truth seeker. Daisy, raised in Toronto in relative freedom, begins as the quintessential teenager, until the murder of her parents on her sixteenth birthday reveals the lies that have made up her life … and the lies she\u2019ll need to live to save many others.

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The Water Cure<\/a><\/strong> by Sophie Mackintosh<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The eerie chill factor proves unrelenting throughout Mackintosh\u2019s 2018 debut which reveals the dissolution of an isolated, splintered family. Grace, Lia, and Sky are three daughters whose father, King, is missing. In a dystopic future ruined by gender violence and environmental destruction, the sisters have been cruelly manipulated to rely only on each other. When two men and a boy wash up on their shore, Mother keeps the sisters separate and safe … until she, too, disappears. Lia\u2019s curiosity leads her to embrace the forbidden. Eldest Grace knows from her own wrenching past what happens next. Father, the men, pass \u2013 the sisters must figure out how to survive.

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Published<\/strong>: “Five More to Go: Cho Nam-Joo\u2019s KIM JIYOUNG, BORN 1982,” The Booklist Reader<\/em>, April 17, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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