I have to admit. It took me a while to finish the book. I was greatly disturbed. The first arc where Yeong Hye made a decision to become a vegetarian - I would say closer to being a vegan. And even this choice was dismissed by her husband, her husband's colleagues (especially the boss's wife) and later her family, which included her older sister, In-Hye, her brother in law, her parents. She had a younger brother who presumably was also in like mind with her father, that being a vegetarian was against human nature. All humans need meat! I suspect that YH made this decision as it is within her control, she had suffered physical abuse from her father, no one really shielded her and even her sister IH came to think about the what-ifs. What if JH had been protected from their father, what if she (IH) had stepped in when YH introduced her husband to be to the family (and she felt he was not right for her) I can't even bear to discuss the second arc, when it focused on the...
