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White Mulberry
by Rosa Kwon Easton
reflective
slow-paced
Thanks to NetGalley for the eARC.
Miyoung moves from Korea to Japan in hopes to further her education. She quickly learns how Koreans are viewed in Japan. In order to receive a higher paying job she pretends to be Japanese.
I was expecting this to be similar to Pachinko and The Vanishing Half. Miyoung's decisions are based on male validation re-constructed into seemingly "young and naive" thoughts. She decides to be called by her Japanese name, Miyoung, in hopes to stop her Japanese classmates from bullying her but nothing changes except now the other Korean students also ostracize her. Still, she insists on being called Miyoung. She studies Japanese and wears a kimono. She acknowledges feeling bad when she sees other visibly and openly Korean people treated badly but she doesn't do or say anything when these things happen.
I don't know what the point of this book was. I wanted to dnf at the 86% mark. Then we end off abruptly in 1943. Why not the end of WW2? I have read the same thing but done better.
Miyoung moves from Korea to Japan in hopes to further her education. She quickly learns how Koreans are viewed in Japan. In order to receive a higher paying job she pretends to be Japanese.
I was expecting this to be similar to Pachinko and The Vanishing Half. Miyoung's decisions are based on male validation re-constructed into seemingly "young and naive" thoughts. She decides to be called by her Japanese name, Miyoung, in hopes to stop her Japanese classmates from bullying her but nothing changes except now the other Korean students also ostracize her. Still, she insists on being called Miyoung. She studies Japanese and wears a kimono. She acknowledges feeling bad when she sees other visibly and openly Korean people treated badly but she doesn't do or say anything when these things happen.
I don't know what the point of this book was. I wanted to dnf at the 86% mark. Then we end off abruptly in 1943. Why not the end of WW2? I have read the same thing but done better.