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[DeepL Translation - needs review] "A new novel by Kim Hye-jung, author of Hiking Girls, Ninja Girls, and Fantastic Girls, who has portrayed girls' growing up years with a warm and lighthearted touch. This is the story of a fifteen-year-old girl who enters a 'diet school' of her own volition to lose weight, but struggles with the school's tyranny. As she revealed that her own experience of being chubby as a child was the motif for the novel, the author's deep understanding and compassion for...
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Page Count:
272
ISBN:
8954427146
ISBN13:
9788954427142
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This was a straightforward yet pretty engaging read, though it might lean more towards being a children's book rather than YA (I'm not entirely sure). The narrative centers on a fifteen-year-old girl who enrolls in a 'diet school' hoping to lose weight. What begins as an exciting journey quickly turns into a devolves into a nightmare and mental turmoil.
While it's easy to interpret this novel as a critique of the extreme lengths people go to meet beauty standards, it also unfolds layers of frie