Books like Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
A thirty-three-year-old Seoul woman begins speaking in the voices of other women, and her psychiatrist's report on her life lays out the sexism she has met at every stage.
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The Vegetarian
A Korean woman stops eating meat, and her quiet refusal escalates into a crisis that consumes her family and transforms her body into something inhuman.
The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly
A battery hen named Sprout escapes the coop, raises a wild duckling as her own, and gives everything to see it fly.
Still Born
Two Mexico City friends make opposite choices about motherhood and find their lives entwined anyway around an ailing newborn.
Breasts and Eggs
Natsuko, a writer in Tokyo, hosts her older sister Makiko, who wants breast enlargement surgery, and Makiko's silent daughter Midoriko; years later, single and childless, Natsuko considers having a child by sperm donor.
The Awakening
A married woman in turn-of-the-century Louisiana begins to awaken to her own desires, and the freedom she discovers is incompatible with the world she lives in.
I Have the Right to Destroy Myself
A man who helps strangers end their lives narrates the stories of the clients and lovers he has known in a cool, cinematic novel of 1990s Seoul.
The Days of Abandonment
A woman in Turin left by her husband with two small children and a dog spirals through one sweltering summer into rage, obsession, and near-total dissolution.
So Long a Letter
After her husband's death, a Senegalese schoolteacher writes to her oldest friend about the day he took a second wife and the life she rebuilt afterward.
Saman
Four women and a priest navigate love, politics, and identity in Suharto-era Indonesia.
The Left-Handed Woman
A young woman in a suburb of Paris, after a sudden illumination, asks her husband to leave and begins to live alone with her eight-year-old son.
Please Look After Mom
When their sixty-nine-year-old mother vanishes in a crowded Seoul subway station, her husband and grown children search the city and realise how little they knew about her.
The Healing Season of Pottery
Burned out by her job as a television writer, Jungmin, thirty, has barely left her Seoul apartment in a year when she wanders into a small pottery studio and signs up for lessons.