If
I Had Your Face
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A riveting debut
novel set in contemporary Seoul, Korea, about four young women making their way
in a world defined by impossibly high standards of beauty, secret room salons
catering to wealthy men, strict social hierarchies, and K-pop fan mania.
"Even as a
girl, I knew the only chance I had was to change my face... even before a
fortune-teller told me so."
Kyuri is a heartbreakingly beautiful woman with a hard-won
job at a "room salon," an exclusive bar where she entertains
businessmen while they drink. Though she prides herself on her cold, clear-eyed
approach to life, an impulsive mistake with a client may come to threaten her
livelihood.
Her roomate, Miho, is a talented artist who grew up in an
orphanage but won a scholarship to study art in New York. Returning to Korea
after college, she finds herself in a precarious relationship with the
super-wealthy heir to one of Korea's biggest companies.
Down the hall in their apartment building lives Ara, a hair
stylist for whom two preoccupations sustain her: obsession with a boy-band pop
star, and a best friend who is saving up for the extreme plastic surgery that
is commonplace.
And Wonna, one floor below, is a newlywed trying to get
pregnant with a child that she and her husband have no idea how they can afford
to raise and educate in the cutthroat economy.
Together, their stories tell a gripping tale that's seemingly
unfamiliar, yet unmistakably universal in the way that their tentative
friendships may have to be their saving grace.
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