New York: Scribner, (2019) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel which follows the lives of two women on the Korean island of Jeju for many decades - "beginning during a period of Japanese colonialism in the 1930s and 1940s, followed by World War II, the Korean War and its aftermath, through the era of cell phones and wet suits for the women divers. Mi-ja is the daughter of a Japanese collaborator, and she will forever be marked by this association. Young-sook was born into a long line of haenyeo and will inherit her motherÕs position leading the divers in their village. Little do the two friends know that after surviving hundreds of dives and developing the closest of bonds, forces outside their control will push their friendship to the breaking point." SIGNED on the title page. 374 pp plus a note from the author and book club questions.