Here are fifteen pitch-perfect stories about women trying to make their own way: featuring daughters, divorcees, fox demons, a praying mantis, and . . . green frogs.a young girl reconnects with her korean grandmother; an artist considers her connection to the korean folktale of the green frog; a praying mantis living in a beautiful home overlooking the park finds the new york dating scene leaves her hungering for more; a fox demon seeks revenge for her murdered sister, only for her loyalties to be torn; ai brings a grieving mother's daughter back to life; at a spa in the mountains, a recently divorced woman has a ghostly encounter; and a recipe book instructs the reader on 'how to eat your own heart'.from the writer of sea change, this collection of fifteen offbeat, scintillating stories influenced by korean fairy tales and contemporary ennui, shines a light on womanhood in all of its human (and other) forms.