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I’ll Be Right There

I’ll Be Right There

Author(s): Kyung-Sook Shin

Location(s): South Korea

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): 1980s

Set in 1980s South Korea amid the tremors of political revolution, I’ll Be Right There follows Jung Yoon, a highly literate, 20-something-year-old woman, as she recounts her tragic personal history as well as those of her three intimate college friends. When Yoon receives a distressing phone call from her ex-boyfriend after eight years of separation, memories of a tumultuous youth begin to resurface, forcing her to re-live the most intense period of her life.

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