The Curies' newly discovered element of radium makes gleaming headlines across the nation as the fresh face of beauty, and wonder drug of the medical community. The incredible true story of the women who fought America's Undark danger Shifting between the perspectives of Da-on and two of Hae-on’s classmates struck in different ways by her otherworldly beauty, Kwon Yeo-sun uses the well-worn form of a crime novel to craft a searing, timely exploration of privilege, jealousy, trauma, and how we live with the wrongs we have endured and inflicted in turn. Unable to move on with her life, Da-on tries in her own twisted way to recover some of what she’s lost, ultimately setting out to find the truth of what happened. Seventeen years pass without any resolution for those close to Hae-on, and the grief and uncertainty take a cruel toll on her younger sister, Da-on, in particular. Two suspects quickly emerge, but alibis and the lack of evidence means the case goes cold. In the summer of 2002 eighteen-year-old Kim Hae-on is killed in what becomes known as the High School Beauty Murder. In this piercing psychological portrait that takes the shape of a crime novel, a woman haunted by her sister's unsolved murder transforms herself in order to cope with the pain of absence and unknowing. Parasite meets The Good Son in this piercing psychological portrait of three women haunted by a brutal, unsolved crime.
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