There the emperor, inspired by her story, marries her. “The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea” is a feminist retelling of the Korean folk story “The Tale of Shim Cheong.” In the original, a dutiful daughter sacrifices herself to the Sea God to help her blind father regain his sight, only to be rewarded for her selflessness and returned to land.
I found exactly that in Axie Oh’s spellbinding new novel, “The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea.” | Feiwel & Friends | $18.99 | Ages 13 and upĪ word I have been thinking a lot about recently is “escape.” Life has been extraordinarily stressful, what with the *gestures broadly at the pandemic* and also * gestures at everything else happening in the world too.* Given the challenges of daily life, I’ve been eager to dive into a book that transports me somewhere else, even briefly. THE GIRL WHO FELL BENEATH THE SEA, by Axie Oh | 325 pp. Welcome to YA/NYT, a monthly column in which we recommend one new young adult book that you won’t want to miss.
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