{"product_id":"if-i-had-your-facebooks","title":"If I Had Your Face","description":"\u003cb\u003eA riveting debut novel set in contemporary Seoul, Korea, about four young women making their way in a world defined by impossible standards of beauty, after-hours room salons catering to wealthy men, ruthless social hierarchies, and K-pop mania.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Even as a girl, I knew the only chance I had was to change my face. When I looked into the mirror, I knew everything in it had to change, even before a fortune-teller told me so.\" \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKyuri is a heartbreakingly beautiful woman with a hard-won job at a \"room salon,\" an exclusive bar where she entertains wealthy businessmen while they drink. Though she prides herself on her cold, clear-eyed approach to life, an impulsive mistake with a client one evening suddenly threatens her livelihood. Her roomate, Miho, is a talented artist who grew up in an orphanage but won a scholarship to study art in New York. Returning to Korea after college, she finds herself in an impossible relationship with the super-wealthy heir to one of Korea's biggest companies. Down the hall from their apartment building lives Ara, a hair stylist whose obsession with a boy-band pop star drives her to desperate extremes. And Wonna, on the floor just below, is a newlywed trying to get pregnant with a child that she and her husband will not be able to afford to raise and educate in the cutthroat economy of Seoul.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTogether, their stories tell a gripping tale at once unfamiliar and unmistakably universal, in which their tentative friendships may turn out to be the thing that ultimately saves them.","brand":"Cha, Frances","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ Adult Fiction","offer_id":52970339303648,"sku":null,"price":12.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/files\/BNCImageAPI_1f562a7d-4a79-4b02-a16a-16935f64d687.jpg?v=1780592253","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/if-i-had-your-facebooks","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}