And Woona is the only married woman out of the four. Ara is a mute hair stylist who spends her free time obsessing over Taein, a fictional K-pop singer. Miho is an orphan who has become an artist and now has a chaebol boyfriend. Kyuri is a stunning room salon girl who obtains her beauty through plastic surgery. The storyline spins deftly through four first-person perspectives that slowly fold together. From overarching beauty standards and cutthroat pressure among social classes to broken family relationships, the novel fleshes out the ramifications of these issues through the narration of its main female protagonists. In her debut novel, releasing April 21, former CNN reporter Frances Cha tackles topical social issues that women in South Korea struggle to overcome. Detailed perspectives of the world around the building come from the voices of the five women it houses, in the riveting slice-of-life tale, “ If I Had Your Face.” Sitting on the same road with a perfect view of all the sordid dealings is a gray, cheaply built, four-story officetel. In the busiest part of Seoul, South Korea lies a street buzzing with drunk men, who are exploring the abundance of bars that the area has to offer.
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