The Island of Sea Women
Collaborationists
Korea, fiction
Contemporary Women
FICTION / Contemporary Women
Fiction, women
Family secrets
Female friendship
Literary
Historical
Fiction, family life
Fiction, historical
Family relationships
Fiction, historical, general
World War, 1939-1945
New York Times bestseller
New York Times reviewed
History
Fiction
Set on the Korean island of Jeju, *The Island of Sea Women* follows Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls from very different backgrounds, as they begin working in the sea with their village’s all-female diving collective. Over many decades—through the Japanese colonialism of the 1930s and 1940s, World Wa…
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