![]() Oddly, although I often don’t like unrealistic endings, this one didn’t bother me (and the author explains in her note why she ended it this way). I often like one storyline more than the other in these dual timeline books, but although Hana’s story is the more jarring and powerful of the two (I often “like” those better), I think Emi’s story gave me a bit of a break from Hana’s abuse. That being said, although I learned about haenyeo in Lisa See’s book, I didn’t know about “comfort women” the two books have a different focus. ![]() I only remembered it being about haenyeo (women divers in Korea). I must have known that would be the case when I added it to my tbr, but often, between the time of adding a book to my tbr and actually reading it, I forget what the book is about. I was not prepared for the amount of violence and rape. Emi has kept plenty of secrets from her children about her life when she was younger. In 2011, an older woman, Emi, is still haenyeo, but has two middle-aged children in Seoul. She is taken with other young girls to a brothel in Manchuria to “service” the soldiers (these girls/women are later known as “comfort women”). It is during WWII, and 16-year old Hana is a haenyeo with her mother in he water on Jeju Island in Korea when she is stolen from the beach in an effort to protect her younger sister from the soldier Hana spotted. ![]()
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