![]() ![]() It also won the Cartoonist Studio Prize for Best Print Comic of the Year. In the year it was published, it appeared on the “Best Of” lists from The New York Times, The Guardian, and more. Grass is a powerful antiwar graphic novel, telling the life story of a Korean girl named. As many fled violence in the north, not everyone was able to make it south. It’s not an uncommon storythe peninsula was split down the 38th parallel, dividing one country into two. Grass is illustrated with beautiful black-ink drawings that show the beauty of nature in Korea as well as the ugliness of the effects of war. Grass - Keum Suk Gendry-Kim - no translation - 9781770464186. Keum Suk Gendry-Kim was a teenager when her mother revealed a family secret: she was separated from her sister during the Korean War. In the present day, Lee is in her eighties and continues to advocate for the rights of women who are still living as “comfort women.” ![]() ![]() In a culture where shame and politeness are so heavily emphasized, stories of people like Lee are being completely erased. In Grass, an anti-war graphic novel, Keum Suk Gendry-Kim tells the true story of Lee’s experience growing up in Japanese occupation and enduring widespread suffering.īeginning with her childhood, Lee shares the years leading up to the war from the perspective of a vulnerable child. Okseon Lee is a Korean woman who was forced into sexual slavery as a young girl for the Japanese Imperial Army during WWII. ![]()
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