Concerning My Daughter

An acerbic and wise book. – Catherine Taylor * Irish Times *
An admirably nuanced portrait of prejudice … one that boldly takes on the daunting task of humanizing someone whose prejudice has made her cruel. – Imogen West Knights * The New York Times *
I can’t help but be moved by a story about women meeting, fighting, helping each other, looking after one another, and raising their voices against the prejudice and criticism they are subject to. – Cho Nam-joo, author of Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
Concerning My Daughter is one of the best character studies I’ve read in years - thoughtful, complicated and surprisingly kind, it raises important questions about ageing, family, and both the cost and the value of change. – Jessie Greengrass, author of An Account of the Decline of the Great Auk and Sight

Concerning My Daughter is a work that is unafraid of the human body in all its contradictions, at once philosophical and practical in its treatment of the aging body, the gendered body, the body’s capacity for acts of caretaking, protest, and love. Urgent, timely, tender.

Concerning My Daughter provides desperate narratives of its female characters. It’s the story of a mother and a daughter, but it goes beyond the relationship and is also ahead of our time. By accompanying the women’s journey overcoming pain and suffering in their lives, we will see our stereotypes broken in the end. The great power smashing our fixed old ideas! This book is filled with such energy.

Kim Hye-jin was born in Daegu, Korea, in 1983. She debuted in 2012 when her story ‘Chicken Run’ won Dong-A Ilbo’s Spring Literary Award. She won the Joongang Novel Prize for Joongang Station, and the Shin Dong-yup Prize for Literature for Concerning My Daughter.

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