Cassie McCullough

There's just this random character, Wanda, who's living this pretty boring life, who's, you know, trying to get pregnant and, like, she doesn't really fit in.

And I don't know why she was there.

And I don't know, you know, why in the beginning we were introduced to so many...

side small characters and so we attached a lot of attention to them and then had to learn about all these others.

So I think there was a sort of structural problem with it.

But it's a ripping read and I think you get quite invested quickly and you turn the pages quickly as well because you want to know what happens to them.

They're all very likeable and interesting characters.

Yeah.

And, you know, I mean, there's lots of those big ideas that who knows whether they're part popular fiction or, you know, pop culture or whether they're really true about South Korea.

But we get introduced to the idea of Han, you know, which is this cultural idea that the South Koreans have this characteristic

emotion that can really destroy them if they don't get it under control.

But it's this sort of grief or resentment or anger inside and, you know, this sort of silent suffering that apparently is an emotion that is...

particular to the South Koreans.

And sometimes it's great.

It's sort of been argued that it helped them get through the post-war recovery, but it's also why there's this fury inside people.

And I think as a investigation of Han, it's a great book.

These women are really angry.

They're really furious.

She's a furious woman.

I'm reading it and reading it and I'm going, oh no.