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“Vivid…thoughtful and empathetic.”
— New York Times
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“Beautiful.”
— Vanity Fair
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“Ccelebrates women’s strengths—and the strength of their friendships.”
— O, The Oprah Magazine
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“Jennifer Lim reads with enormous dignity, almost reverence, for the tale of diving women while conveying the day-to-day banter and jostling among the women.”
— Booklist (starred audio review)
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“Lim’s clear and sensitive portrayals, complete with believable accents, make it easy for listeners to keep track of the characters…[in] this well-researched, affecting story.”
— AudioFile
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'Lisa See excels at mining the intersection of family, friendship and history... This novel spans wars and generations, but at its heart is a beautifully rendered story of two women whose individual choices become inextricably tangled'
— Jodi Picoult
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'I was spellbound the moment I entered the vivid and little-known world of the diving women of Jeju... No one writes about female friendship, the dark and the light of it, with more insight and depth than Lisa See'
— Sue Monk Kidd, author of The Secret Life of Bees
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'For centuries, women on Korea’s Jeju island have been free-diving into the sea, a practice explored through this fictionalized story of two friends who struggle to stay close amid war, family rivalries, and a shifting cultural landscape. It’s riveting, historical, and heartbreaking all at once’
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