Praise for Apartment Women

“Reading this incisive, delicate and wholly original book, I found that words like ‘family,’ ‘neighbor,’ ‘nature,’ and ‘community’ no longer evoked warm and bountiful images in me. They gave me a chill. And I know that this is reality.”

—Cho Nam-joo, author of Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982

“Gu Byeong-mo’s Apartment Women is a sharp examination of the boundary between the utopic ideals of community and the dystopian realities of late capitalism. The characters—beautifully drawn, full of flaws and wholly human—live side-by-side in a tense intimacy that haunted me long after I put the book down.”

—Sarah Ruiz-Grossman, author of A Fire So Wild

“Gu Byeong-mo’s novel Apartment Women asks a provocative question. Rebelling against the social norms and conventions, she invites us to look again at things we have taken for granted.”

—Hankyoreh Daily

“[Gu Byeong-mo] relentlessly reveals the dark side of the words ‘warm community’ that we have so far been using without questioning.”

—Korea Herald