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The Eyes Are the Best Part
- Narrated by: Rosa Escoda
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
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Summary
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING 'GOOD FOR HER' NOVEL
A TIME Top 100 Book of the Year
Shortlisted for the GoodReads Choice Awards for Best Debut Novel and Horror Book
In GOOGLE PLAY's top reads of 2024
'THE EYES ARE THE BEST PART is an outstanding debut, a feminist horror novel that tackles big social issues and also delivers the gory origin story of a female serial killer.' - NEW YORK TIMES
'I WAS ENTICED FROM THE FIRST LINE' - Oyinkan Braithwaite
'DARKLY FUNNY' - Fern Brady
'A DARK MODERN FAIRYTALE OF FEMALE VENGEANCE' - Harriet Walker
'VERY CLEVER, VERY WEIRD, BRILLIANT SOCIAL COMMENTARY' - Abigail Bergstrom
My Sister, the Serial Killer meets Boy Parts, this literary feminist howl-of-a-debut is going to crawl right under your skin...
Ji-won's life is in disarray. Her father's affair has ripped her family to shreds, leaving her to piece their crappy lives back together.
So, when her mother's obnoxious new white boyfriend enters the scene, bragging about his flawed knowledge of Korean culture and ogling Asian waitresses in restaurants, Ji-won's hold over her emotions strains. As he gawks at her and her sister around their claustrophobic apartment, Ji-won becomes more and more obsessed with his brilliant blue eyeballs.
As her fixation and rage grow, Ji-won decides that she must do the one thing that will save her family... and also curb her cravings.
'Violent, gruesome and wildly original' - NEW YORK TIMES
'Utterly fantastic, female revenge horror at its finest. Perfect for readers of Tender is the Flesh' WATERSTONES
'Smartly written, [this is] a fun and nasty debut with real edge to it. A promising calling card from a writer to watch' THE BIG ISSUE
'One of the most assured feminist horror novels I have ever read' Bookseller
'Dark, uncomfortable and addictive... I was hooked from page one. What an exciting debut' Bookseller
'If you love unhinged women and seeing them get their revenge, then you NEED to read this... A very well-written social commentary on misogyny, racism and cultural fetishisation' Bookseller
Sunday Times bestseller in week of 29/07/2024
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- Kathryn E. Goldin
- 13-07-24
Sharp and Incisive
This novel does a delicate but conscious job of setting the scene, building up a picture of the American Korean community through the lens of our central family، a recently single mum and her two daughters struggling to cope with the departure of their father, and life as a working class family. The eldest daughter Ji-won is the protagonist keenly conscious of how her identity is perceived and how she and her fellow women are seemingly powerless in a world where white and male privilege is so dominant. Watching her mother's struggles she is determined to find another way to resist.
The title alludes to her mother's insistent claim that to eat the eyes of a fish brings luck and indeed fortune and foresight are key themes in this story as Ji-won wonders if she must accept her lot in life or take her family's future into her own hands when things start to change for them all.
Biting and funny, with an engaging cast and vivid writing, this is a story of empowerment that might have you rooting the pleasure or wincing with unease. Great fun to read.
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- Crimson Whispers VA
- 30-08-24
intriguing story
I have heard amazing things about this book and also the premise sounded so intriguing
In this novel, we are introduced to a family that's a broken home due to the husband finding someone else to be with and see over time the oldest daughter Ji-Won over time start to change... the changes are subtle at first but in this Tumultuous time in her life you can see her sense of self has started to fracture & how she sees everyone and everything gets more distorted, people turn into nothing but unpleasantries to suffer and to make suffer and the only thing that seems really to her is the obsession we see happen (Eyes) and she only fills fulfilment when she devours eyes. This obsession shows that nothing in her life she has power over other than this and she gets off on the power trip from it ( but she also hates the man who has been dating her mother).
This is an interesting book about a young woman who has never had a life where she was wanted or needed and turns into an unhinged violent woman.
The ending was a little bit of a surprise.
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