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Also by Lee Geum-yi:

Can't I Go Instead, May 2024
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The Picture Bride, October 2023
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Can't I Go Instead, May 2023
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The Picture Bride, October 2022
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CAN'T I GO INSTEAD
By: Lee Geum-yi

Forge Books
May 2024
On Sale: April 30, 2024
384 pages
ISBN: 1250859565
EAN: 9781250859563
Kindle: B0B9KVP5NX
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Hardcover (May 2023)

Women's Fiction Historical

Can't I Go Instead follows the lives of the daughter of a Korean nobleman and her maidservant in the early 20th century. When the daughter’s suitor is arrested as a Korean Independence activist, and she is implicated during the investigation, she is quickly forced into marriage to one of her father’s Japanese employees and shipped off to the United States. At the same time, her maidservant is sent in her mistress's place to be a comfort woman to the Japanese Imperial army.

Years of hardship, survival, and even happiness follows. In the aftermath of WWII, the women make their way home, where they must reckon with the tangled lives they've led, in an attempt to reclaim their identities, and find their place in an independent Korea.