The narrative then backtracks, and tells us the story of the life of Kim Jiyoung including a short family history, her birth, growing up and an adult life.
Her husband is concerned and she is taken in to get psychiatric help.
The novel opens with a young Korean woman experiencing a strange problem, Kim Jiyoung is fully impersonating other women she knows, and does not seem self-aware of the fact. The book has six chapters, each one narrating a different stage in Kim Jiyoung's life. It focuses on the everyday sexism the title character experiences from youth. The story-line centers on a housewife who becomes a stay-at-home mother and later suffers from depression. That's why I was able to write so quickly without much preparation." Published by Minumsa in October 2016, it has sold more than 1 million copies as of 27 November 2018, becoming the first million-selling Korean novel since Shin Kyung-sook's Please Look After Mom in 2009. A former scriptwriter for TV programs, Cho took two months to write the story as according to her, the title character "Kim Ji-young's life isn't much different from the one I have lived. Kim Ji-young, Born 1982 ( Korean: 82년생 김지영) is a novel by Cho Nam-Joo.
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