is in the sea and wants to dive to remember what it is like to be a haenyeo like her mother. JinHee is with her, and YoonHui uses her mother's mask. JinHee tells her that Emi was proud of her. YoonHui visited the statue after her mother had died with Lane and her nephew. Her nephew pointed out that someone had left flowers; they were white chrysanthemums. Lane found the artist that made the statue and they shared a black and white photograph that inspired the statue. It was from the daughter of a woman who was captured by Russian soldiers during World War II and had donated it to the Museum of Sexual Slavery. It had the label of haenyeo girl, with the date 1993. YoonHui tells the statue goodbye Aunt Hana. Style Mary Lynn Bract said in an interview that the authors she either had previously read or read while working on this novel were Toni Morrison, Kyung-Sook Shin, Annie Proulx, Muriel Barbery, Marilynne Robinson, Maya Angelou, Michael Ondaatje, George Orwell, Helen Dunmore, Kimiko Hahn, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. She states that reading good writing can lead to creativity, so she picks up books if she is ever stuck so she can think of where she wants her books to go and how to get them to go in that direction. Reception Kirkus Reviews attributes the author with writing the novel in a "lyrical" manner while integrating historical events, however, it is "relentlessly and explicitly brutal [that] it runs the risk of numbing, or perhaps exhausting, the reader". The Guardian comments on how the author demonstrates pain through her characters, and how the novel "forces us to confront the inescapability of these traumas". The Guardian continues to remark that "the novel will affect readers differently, depending on their background". Asian Review of Books considers the novel to be "thought-provoking" for its incorporation of politics, "the personal and familial", and the "horrific" that may contribute to the remembrance of comfort women so that they are not forgotten. The Irish Times characterizes the novel as having "the starkness of witness literature" yet encounters moments of "awkwardness" in the author's style when authorial tone takes the place of voices of the characters. References 2018 American novels G. P. Putnam's Sons books