![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In a chilling, eerily truncated third-person voice, Jiyoung's entire life is recounted to the psychiatrist―a narrative infused with disparate elements of frustration, perseverance, and submission. As she plunges deeper into this psychosis, her discomfited husband sends her to a male psychiatrist. But she quickly begins to exhibit strange symptoms that alarm her husband, parents, and in-laws: Jiyoung impersonates the voices of other women―alive and even dead, both known and unknown to her. A thirtysomething-year-old "millennial everywoman," she has recently left her white-collar desk job―in order to care for her newborn daughter full-time―as so many Korean women are expected to do. In a small, tidy apartment on the outskirts of the frenzied metropolis of Seoul lives Kim Jiyoung. Truly, flawlessly, completely, she became that person. ![]()
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