Lead Review

  • Book: Fox Girl
  • Location: South Korea
  • Author: Nora Okja Keller

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Content

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 base. Narrated by the teenage Hyun Jin and focusing mainly on herself and friends Sookie and Lobetto, it shows how multiple generations are trapped into a cycle of exploitation, especially children of prostitutes and American soldiers.

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