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The Impact of War: Lisa See’s “The Sea Island of Women”

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The Impact of War: Lisa See’s “The Sea Island of Women”
Article
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-impact-of-war-lisa-sees-the-sea-island-of-women/
Journal
LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS
Issued Date
May 10, 2019
Page
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Language
English(English)
Country
UNITED STATES
City
Los Angeles
Book
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Writer
Lisa See

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  • Lisa See
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  • Occupation : Writer
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  • Korean Name : Lisa See
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In her latest novel, The Island of Sea Women, Lisa See tackles the notion of women’s fiction head-on. She begins in a familiar way: a not-so-chance encounter on a beach on the remote Jeju Island off the tip of South Korea sets an old woman’s mind on the past; a family of Americans asks Young-sook, who lives on the island, if she recognizes a woman in a black-and-white photograph, and of course she does. See wants us to know this, though Young-sook refuses to acknowledge it. This frame sets up a mystery: Who is the woman Young-sook denied, and why did she lie? What happened between them?

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