The Island of Sea Women: A Novel by Lisa See, 2019, 384 pages, Simon & Schuster Ltd, New York,, ISBN: 978 1 5011 54867

“Every woman who enters the sea, carries a coffin on her back. In this undersea world we tow the burdens of a hard life. We are crossing between life and death every day.” Sun-Sil, Chief Haenyo of the diving collective in Hado, Jeju, speaks these words while preparing Young-Sook and her diving partner Mi-Ja as they take their first dive as Hagun(baby divers) with their collective.