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"""Reading the book, I found that words like 'family', 'neighbor', 'nature', and 'community' no longer evoked warm and bountiful images in me. They gave me a chill. And I know that this is reality.""--Cho Nam-joo, author of Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 ""Gu Byeong-mo's novel Table Manners asks a provocative question. Rebelling against the social norms and conventions, she invites us to look again at things we have taken for granted.""--Hankyoreh Daily ""[Gu Byeong-mo] relentlessly reveals the dark side of the word 'warm community' that we have so far been using without questioning.""--Korea Herald"

""Reading this incisive, delicate and wholly original book, I found that words like 'family', 'neighbor', 'nature', and 'community' no longer evoked warm and bountiful images in me. They gave me a chill. And I know that this is reality.""--Cho Nam-joo, author of Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 ""Gu Byeong-mo's Apartment Women is a sharp examination of the boundary between the utopic ideals of community and the dystopian realities of late capitalism. The characters--beautifully drawn, full of flaws and wholly human--live side-by-side in a tense intimacy that haunted me long after I put the book down.""--Sarah Ruiz-Grossman, author of A Fire So Wild ""Gu Byeong-mo's novel Apartment Women asks a provocative question. Rebelling against the social norms and conventions, she invites us to look again at things we have taken for granted.""--Hankyoreh Daily ""[Gu Byeong-mo] relentlessly reveals the dark side of the word 'warm community' that we have so far been using without questioning.""--Korea Herald ""Via breezy, engaging storytelling, Gu's realist novel explores the roles of women, with protagonists who discuss parenting and work-life balance while contending with meeting social, cultural, and societal mores. Readers will eagerly follow this story through to see which couples, if any, succeed in meeting the concept behind this distinctive living situation. A good pick for book clubs.""--Library Journal ""Meticulously translated by prize-winning Kim, Gu's bitingly perceptive observations about womanhood, wifehood, and motherhood adroitly provoke acute feelings of breathtaking claustrophobia amidst stifling societal expectations.""--Booklist ""Piercing... Keenly portrays the toll taken by gendered expectations. This is a perceptive novel of motherhood's double binds.""--Publishers Weekly

"""Reading this incisive, delicate and wholly original book, I found that words like 'family', 'neighbor', 'nature', and 'community' no longer evoked warm and bountiful images in me. They gave me a chill. And I know that this is reality.""--Cho Nam-joo, author of Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 ""Gu Byeong-mo's novel Apartment Women asks a provocative question. Rebelling against the social norms and conventions, she invites us to look again at things we have taken for granted.""--Hankyoreh Daily ""[Gu Byeong-mo] relentlessly reveals the dark side of the word 'warm community' that we have so far been using without questioning.""--Korea Herald"

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Gu Byeong-mo an award-winning author. Born in Seoul, South Korea, she now resides in Jinju, South Korea, with her family. The Old Woman with the Knife is her first book to be translated into English.

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