Books Details
Author : Lisa See Pages : pages Publisher : Simon &Schuster Audio Language :
eng ISBN-10 : B07H433D99 ISBN-13 :
Books Descriptions
A new novel from Lisa See, the New York Times bestselling author of The Tea
Girl of Hummingbird Lane, about female friendship and family secrets on a
small Korean island.Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island
of Jeju, are best friends that come from very different backgrounds. When they
are old enough, they begin working in the sea with their village?s all-female
diving collective, led by Young-sook?s mother. As the girls take up their
positions as baby divers, they know they are beginning a life of excitement and
responsibility but also danger.Despite their love for each other, Mi-ja and
Young-sook?s differences are impossible to ignore. The Island of Sea Women is
an epoch set over many decades, beginning during a period of Japanese
colonialism in the 1930s and 1940s, followed by World War II, the Korean War
and its aftermath, through the era of cell phones and wet suits for the women
divers. Throughout this time, the residents of Jeju find themselves caught
