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Book review: The Trunk’s strong premise of a rental wife is weighed down by unfocused storytelling

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Author Kim Ryeo-ryeong's The Trunk posits a world where marriage can simply be a service to be traded and sold.

Author Kim Ryeo-ryeong's The Trunk posits a world where marriage can simply be a service to be traded and sold.

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By Kim Ryeo-ryeong
Fiction/Penguin Randomhouse/Paperback/304 pages/$21.81

Has society been thinking about marriage all wrong?

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