Deciding to go vegetarian in the wake of violent thoughts, Yeong-hye, a woman from an Asian culture of strict societal mores, is denounced as a subversive as she spirals into extreme rebelliousness that causes her to splinter from her true nature and risk her life.

"This book was originally published in Korean as three separate novelettes and then compiled into a novel "Chaesikjuuija," published in 2007 by Changbi Publishers, Inc."--Title page verso.