In honor of Asian \;American \;Her itage Month\, we're reading The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See.& nbsp\;On an island off the South Korean coast\, an ancient guild of women divers reckons with the depredations of modernity from 1938 to 2008. The w omen divers of Jeju Island\, known as haenyeo\, don't display the usual fe male subservience. Empowered by the income they derive from their diving\, harvesting seafood to consume and sell\, haenyeo are heads of households\ ; their husbands mind the children and do menial chores. As two tragedies prove\, the most prized catches are the riskiest: octopus and abalone. See did extensive research with primary sources to detail not only the haenye o traditions\, but the mass murders on Jeju beginning in 1948\, which were covered up for decades by the South Korean government. \;
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