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Frances Cha

Biography

Frances Cha

Frances Cha is a former travel and culture editor for CNN in Seoul. She grew up in the United States, Hong Kong and South Korea. A graduate of Dartmouth College and the Columbia University MFA writing program, she has written for The Atlantic, The Believer and the Yonhap News Agency, among others, and has lectured at Columbia University, Ewha Womans University, Seoul National University and Yonsei University. She lives in Brooklyn.

Frances Cha

Books by Frances Cha

If I Had Your Face
by Frances Cha - Fiction

Kyuri is an achingly beautiful woman with a hard-won job at a Seoul “room salon,” an exclusive underground bar where she entertains businessmen while they drink, but an impulsive mistake threatens her livelihood. Kyrui’s roommate, Miho, is a talented artist who finds herself in a precarious relationship with the heir to one of Korea’s biggest conglomerates. Down the hall lives Ara, a hairstylist whose two preoccupations sustain her: an obsession with a boy-band pop star, and a best friend who is saving up for extreme plastic surgery. And Wonna, one floor below, is a newlywed trying to have a baby that she and her husband have no idea how they can afford to raise in Korea’s brutal economy.