![]() ![]() At the opening of the novel, Hana is sixteen and her younger sister Emi is still too young to dive, although she too soon becomes a haenyeo. They are strong, independent women who harvest bounty from the ocean floor to feed their families. In her debut novel, London-based Korean-American writer Mary Lynn Bracht explores the effects of these women’s abductions on their families and on wider society, and celebrates the power of women to survive horrific circumstances.īracht’s protagonists are haenyeo, female free divers from the southern Korean island of Jeju Island. ![]() ![]() W hite Chrysanthemum memorializes Korean comfort women-women forced into sexual slavery by Japanese occupying forces during World War Two. ![]()
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