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Fox Girl

Fox Girl

Author(s): Nora Okja Keller

Location(s): South Korea

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): Mid 20th Century

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America Town in post-war Korea is a bad place to end up in: for Sookie and her half sister, Hyun Jin, it’s an even worse place to start out from. Kelller unflinchingly records the sex and war just after the Korean war, where American GI’s cavort with local prostitutes, in this follow-up to COMFORT WOMAN (1999) – which was long-listed for the Orange.

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Fox Girl is a brilliant “awareness novel”, transporting the reader to 1960s Korea, where women trapped in a culture of prostitution struggle to survive in “America Town,” serving the American soldiers on the local...

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