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Yideum is primarily a poet and this is evident in the texture and sensuality of her prose, skillfully translated by Ji Yoon Lee. My flesh crumbles into tiny flakes. I love that I can't see myself-there is no anger, no grudge, just darkness here. Such sentences are comfortably juxtaposed to the coarse way Yeoul speaks and describes the world around her. Yideum expertly depicts a world in which female pain is casually cast aside-a world that will be all too familiar to many female readers. This slim novel juggles so much: same-gender attraction, violence against women, abusive families, and more. This tightly-wound, exacting story is set during the late 80's, a time of student activism and suppression in Korea. Jeong Yeoul is unforgettable and mesmerizing as she navigates college life, gender norms, politics, and death. - Anna, Bookseller at City Lights Bookstore

Yideum is primarily a poet and this is evident in the texture and sensuality of her prose, skillfully translated by Ji Yoon Lee. My flesh crumbles into tiny flakes. I love that I can't see myself-there is no anger, no grudge, just darkness here. Such sentences are comfortably juxtaposed to the coarse way Yeoul speaks and describes the world around her. Yideum expertly depicts a world in which female pain is casually cast aside-a world that will be all too familiar to many female readers.

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Kim Yi-Deum has published five books of poetry A Stain in the Shape of a Star, Cheer up, Femme Fatale, The Unspeakable Lover, Song of Berlin, Dahlem, and Hysteria and the novel Blood Sisters. Her work has been adapted into a play (The Metamorphosis, 2014) and a film (After School, 2015). She has received numerous awards for her poetry, including the Poetry & the World Literary Award (2010), the Kim Daljin Changwon Award (2011), the 22nd Century Literary Award (2015) and the Kim Chunsoo Award (2015). Ji yoon Lee is a poet and translator whose most recent publication is Poems of Kim Yideum, Kim Haengsook, and Kim Minjeong, the collection of contemporary Korean poetry (Vagabond Press, 2017). She translated Korean feminist poet Kim Yideum's Cheer Up, Femme Fatale (Action Books, 2015), which was shortlisted for Lucien Stryk Prize. She is also the author of Foreigner's Folly (Coconut Books, 2014), Funsize/Bitesize (Birds of Lace, 2013), and IMMA(Radioactive Moat, 2012). She received her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Notre Dame.

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