The book is about a sister who gets cheated on. She's the only person in young hay's life who is takin care of her. The violence that she inflicts on people around her is one of negligence, or one of inaction.
How could a dream upend your life? Would you stop eating meat? Embark on a ruinous affair? Desert your family?
Han Kang's The Vegetarian asks visceral questions about our capacity for violence and what'd be willing to give up to be rid of it.
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