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02288aam a2200337 i 4500 001 9D76A4A4E3CB11ECB2E80CFF26ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220604010019 008 211109s2021 nyu 000 1 eng d 010 $a 2021351418 020 $a 0593129482 020 $a 9780593129487 040 $d SILO 100 1 $a Cha, Frances, $e author. 245 10 $a If I had your face : $b a novel / $c Frances Cha. 250 $a Ballantine Books trade paperback edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Ballantine Books, $c 2021. 300 $a 289 pages ; $c 21 cm 500 $a Includes a book club guide. 520 $a Kyuri is an electrically beautiful woman with a hard-won job at a Seoul "room salon," an exclusive underground bar where she entertains businessmen while they drink. Though she prides herself on her cold, clear-eyed approach to life, an impulsive mistakethreatens her livelihood. Kyuri's roommate, Miho, is a talented artist who grew up in an orphanage but won a scholarship to study art in New York. Returning to Korea after college, she finds herself in a precarious relationship with the heir to one of Korea's biggest conglomerates. Down the hall in their building lives Ara, a hairstylist whose two preoccupations sustain her: an obsession with a boy-band pop star, and a best friend who is saving up for the extreme plastic surgery that she hopes will changeher life. And Wonna, one floor below, is a newlywed trying to have a baby, thought she and her husband have no idea how they can afford to raise it in Korea's brutal economy. Together, their stories tell a gripping tale at once unfamiliar and unmistakably universal, in which their tentative friendships may turn out to be the thing that ultimately saves them -- Back cover. 650 0 $a Women $z Korea (South) $x Social life and customs $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Neighbors $z Korea (South) $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Female friendship $v Fiction. 650 7 $a Manners and customs $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Korea (South) $x Social life and customs $v Fiction. 651 7 $a Korea (South) $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Domestic fiction. $2 lcgft 941 $a 2 952 $l USUX851 $d 20230804011821.0 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20220604010044.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9D76A4A4E3CB11ECB2E80CFF26ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search