Through the story of Mi-ja and Young-sook, two women divers from strikingly different backgrounds, but both part of their village’s all-female diving collective, See introduces the reader to this unique and unexplored culture of female diving. Lisa See travels back 75 years to these horrifying events and weaves a narrative that intertwines these historical happenings with the haenyeo culture of female divers who created a semi-matriarchal society in which they were the breadwinners while their husbands carried out domestic duties and menial work. Little is known about Jeju- a Korean island- occupied by brutal Japanese troops in the 1930s and ’40s, later liberated by US forces and turned over to the even more barbarous Korean regime whose wrongdoings were overlooked by both American and U.N. A story about the fierce female divers of Jeju island
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