![]() Young-sook, See’s first-person narrator and protagonist, tells of her family and her ill-fated friendship with Mi-ja, who, rescued from neglectful relatives by Sun-sil, Young-sook’s mother, is initiated into the diving collective headed by Sun-sil. Empowered by the income they derive from their diving, harvesting seafood to consume and sell, haenyeo are heads of households their husbands mind the children and do menial chores. The women divers of Jeju Island, known as haenyeo, don't display the usual female subservience. On an island off the South Korean coast, an ancient guild of women divers reckons with the depredations of modernity from 1938 to 2008 in See's ( The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, 2017, etc.) latest novel. ![]()
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