![]() Her behavioural quirks are never explained, but nor is this the point of the novel. Kim Jiyoung is a case study, but in so much more than a fictional sense. The reason for this (and the footnotes peppering the text) is only fully revealed in the final chapter, in which we learn that we have just been reading a psychiatrist’s report on his patient, Kim Jiyoung, who was referred to him by her husband when she started displaying signs of ‘abnormal behaviour’, chiefly by mimicking other women she knows. ![]() Aside from biographical events and reported conversations, we learn very little about her – thoughts and feelings, if expressed at all, are only relayed to us at considerable remove. From her very name to the life she leads as a stay-at-home Seoul mother, who used to work at an advertising agency but gave up her job to care for her daughter, everything about her is ordinary. ![]() Kim Jiyoung, the novel’s main protagonist, has often been described as an everywoman. ![]()
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