Cho's clinical prose is bolstered with figures and footnotes to illustrate how ordinary Jiyoung's experience is.... When Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982, was published in Korea in 2016, it was received as a cultural call to arms.... Like Bong Joon Ho's Academy Award-winning film Parasite, which unleashed a debate about class disparities in South Korea, Cho's novel was treated as a social treatise as much as a work of art.... The new, often subversive novels by Korean women, which have intersected with the rise of the #MeToo movement, are driving discussions beyond the literary world.–Alexandra Alter "New York Times"
