{"id":11027,"date":"2019-03-11T08:56:40","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T15:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/?p=11027"},"modified":"2019-03-11T09:13:13","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T16:13:13","slug":"the-island-of-sea-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/the-island-of-sea-women\/","title":{"rendered":"The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2019\/03\/LandSeaWomen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11029\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2019\/03\/LandSeaWomen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"264\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2019\/03\/LandSeaWomen.jpg 264w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2019\/03\/LandSeaWomen-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 264px) 100vw, 264px\" \/><\/a>Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are best friends that come from very different backgrounds. When they are old enough, they begin working in the sea with their village\u2019s all-female diving collective, led by Young-sook\u2019s mother. Despite their love for each other, Mi-ja and Young-sook\u2019s differences are impossible to ignore.\u00a0<em>The Island of Sea Women\u00a0<\/em>is an epoch set over 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. Throughout this time, the residents of Jeju find themselves caught between warring empires. 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\u00a0<em>haenyeo\u00a0<\/em>and will inherit her mother\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>Find this and more in the Popular Reading Collection!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are best friends that come from very different backgrounds. When they are old enough, they begin working in the sea with their village\u2019s all-female diving collective, led by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/the-island-of-sea-women\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-popular-reading-collection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11027"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11030,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11027\/revisions\/11030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}