Every Woman Should Read This Short Novel!

Hello Lemonees 🍋

Let me just start off this review with this,

If you feel you want to be angry, read this book. I highly recommend it.

Personal Ratings: 4/5🌟

AN IMPORTANT READ ABOUT THE ROLES OF WOMEN, MISTREATMENTS AND CAN GET YOU SEETHING WITH ANGER

This book left a bitter aftertaste after I finished it. It made me sad, it made me frustrated, and most of all, it left me with so much questions on how the world has not changed still, even until now. The book reflects how society views the misogynistic world that we live in, and it sucks. Really bad.

🛑TRIGGER WARNINGS: Depression, Post-Natal Depression, Child Birth, Aggression, Sexual Harassment, Sexual Assaults, Anxiety, 🛑

🍋Short Summary

Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 is a story of perspective. Told in a case file format, on the life of one Kim Jiyoung and how she had endured every mistreatments that she faced through her whole life. Its not only a story from her perspective, but a story of women in general, on how the patriarchal ways still have not changed, and how women is viewed in general. Separated in six parts, it tells the stories of the mistreatment that Jiyoung had faced from childhood, up till the present during her marriage.

I had to hold myself from writing a ranty review, but this book was both heart-wrenching and infuriating at the same time. It was 167 pages of me stopping at every 5 pages, stopping myself from not wanting to murder all the people that Jiyoung had met in the book.

Some of the things that I like about the book despite it being a short read

🍉The Format

I like how the author told this story as a case file format. It may feel flat at times, but I like how we can go into the details of the book and having to experience what Jiyoung had gone through since she was a child. The writing was not hard to digest, and it made you feel that you were the one experiencing what Jiyoung was facing, which what I think the author had intended in a way. To be able to see the perspective of someone that had to go through something so tiring and traumatizing in her life, with the observations of Jiyoung of her mother and the ways she was treated had made it seemed like we're living through the lenses of the character itself. The fact that the issues overlapped with reality has made the reading experience so incredibly frustrating at times.

🍋Citations for Facts Told and Written in the Book

I love authors who does researches in their work, and I love that every statistics that she came out with was cited from a research source or journal source. It shows how serious some of the issues that had been brought up in this book and it was not just something written out of spite. This book itself had created a spark of movement in South Korea and I understand why. Its how women had been thought to think and act in only a certain way that had made this a read that is relatable to anyone reading it. Its stories of women, experienced at every age of their life.

Its sad how the world that we live in still curates and tells women to act in a certain way, from the day she was born. Its an important read on understanding the point-of-view from

- A girl who was told that she over-reacted when someone "accidentally" brushed their hands on her private parts

- A girl who was followed home just because she was being polite mistakenly thought that she was "flirting" with you

- A woman at work where her rights for sick maternity leaves were questioned

- Girls who had to endure sexual harassments and assaults and not being able to report if for fear of "embarrassing your family's name or the company's reputation"

- Mothers in pregnancy and the roles of daughter-in-laws in the family and the pressure to have children right after marriage

This is a story of perspective, and one that I highly recommend to read.

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