If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Wonna and her husband live on the first floor, also in a studio, and are a little older than the four friends. Kyuri, Miho, Sujin and Ara are all friends in their twenties living in an office-tel, or a building with studio apartments and office space. I would live your life so much better than you if I had your face. You have so much and you can do anything you want. Stop running around like a fool, I wanted to stay. ![]() I wanted to reach over and shake her by the shoulders. When the star is called back into an exam room, the two women lock eyes. ![]() The K-Pop star looks as if she’d been crying and pulls a cap down over her face when Kyuri peers over at her. At the beginning of Frances Cha’s debut novel, If I Had Your Face, a fierce social commentary about gender roles, class divisions and, yes, plastic surgery in South Korea, Kyuri is seated at her plastic surgeon’s office and spots the K-Pop star whose look she copied for her many surgeries. ![]()
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