If I Had Your Face

A Novel

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Frances Cha: If I Had Your Face (2020, Random House Publishing Group)

288 pages

English language

Published Sept. 3, 2020 by Random House Publishing Group.

ISBN:
978-0-593-12947-0
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4 stars

"I would live your life so much better than you, if I had your face."

An interesting story about four women living in the same officetel (a style of housing in Korea with mixed purpose units available for rent). Each has their own different background and life story, but because of their living situation in the same building, all four know each other very well. We learn each woman’s story through their different chapters, each one taking a different woman’s point of view. Ara is a hair stylist who, because of a traumatic injury when she was in high school, cannot speak, and has a crush on the lead singer of a K-pop band. Kyuri is a “room salon girl”, like a high class prostitute, who works for a madam and wines and dines expensive clients. Miho is an artist who grew up poor, earned a scholarship to a prestigious …

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Subjects

  • Fiction, women
  • Korea, fiction
  • Friendship, fiction