# If I had your face: A novel

> ## Ara

## Ara

- A mute girl, works at a hair salon
- Lives in a tiny apartment with **Sujin**, went to middle and high school together

## Kyuri

- Works at a room salon Ajax
- Lives with **Miho**
- Modeled her face after **Candy**, a celebrity
- "I would live your life so much better than you, if I had your face."

## Wonna

- Married woman, suffers a <Claustrophobia>
- Lives in the same building with Ara and Miho.
- Too late but still so young: "I married him because I was tired and it was already too late for me, even though I was still so young."
- "Unless you are born into a chaebol family or your parents were the fantastically lucky few who purchased land in Gangnam decades ago, you have to work and work and work for a salary that isn’t even enough to buy a house or pay for childcare, and you sit at a desk until your spine twists, and your boss is somehow incompetent and a workaholic at the same time and at the end of the day you have to drink to bear it all."
- "I wanted a baby, a wee creature who would be completely mine"
- "The hate mothers-in-law harbor toward their daughters-in-law is built into the genes of all women in this country."

## Miho

- An artist, lives with **Kyuri**.
- **Sujin** wrote to her to come live with her.
- **Wonna**'s perspective: "They look so quiet and cold no matter the weather and they nod at me and whisper hello under their breath…. They don’t know that I have been waiting for them to come home."
- **Miho**'s perspective: "Sometimes, I see the wife sitting on the steps when I come back late at night from the studio. She never raises her head as I walk past. It’s all very rude but I am used to her."
- **Kyuri** said: "You know, you’re just lucky that your kind of face is trendy these days. But you don’t have to be such a condescending snob about surgery."
- "the naturally beautiful artist-in-residence."
- **Kyuri** said: "That's okay—this is really important! I want you to marry Im Ga-yoon’s son and introduce me to celebrities all the time." And Miho thoughts: "She doesn’t see the horror on my face."
- **Hanbin**'s mother opened an art gallery near Gyeongbokgung Palace.