The women of this family are absolutely everything and deserve the best. This was such an interesting character study/commentary on women’s (in particular mother’s) social issues in Korea. I loved that throughout the story, we got these really eye opening and disheartening statistics that show just how disadvantaged Korean girls and women are at each phase of their life and how society and the law basically just say “numbers are still terrible but at least we’re doing better!!!”

Some of my favorite parts were:

-every time Jiyoung’s mother shut down her husband’s misogyny 

-every time Jiyoung’s sister essentially said she wasn’t going to let the patriarchy/misogyny run her life

-every time a man was talking about how much they support women just to turn around and spew misogyny about the same topic, but at a different person (that last chapter? A masterpiece)