Inspired by the story of Seulmi Lee's great aunt, one of the oldest women to escape alone from North Korea, this novel consists of eight dark and spellbinding tales that follow this remarkable character and her family as they struggle to survive during the most turbulent times of modern Korean history. Mirinae Lee's trickster is a shapeshifter - throughout the course of these interconnected stories she is a slave, an escape artist, a murderer, a terrorist, a spy, a lover, and a mother - a woman who must often choose the unthinkable to survive war and conquest in Korea. Print run 30,000.
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