Grass

Grass

<p><b>This true story of a Korean comfort woman documents how the atrocity of war devastates women's lives</b><i></i><br><i></i><br><i>Grass</i> is a powerful antiwar graphic novel, telling the life story of a Korean girl named Okseon Lee who was forced into sexual slavery for the Japanese Imperial Army during the Second World War―a disputed chapter in twentieth-century Asian history. </p><p>Beginning in Lee's childhood, <i>Grass</i> shows the lead-up to the war from a child's vulnerable perspective, detailing how one person experienced the Japanese occupation and the widespread suffering it entailed for ordinary Koreans. Keum Suk Gendry-Kim emphasizes Lee's strength in overcoming the many forms of adversity she experienced. <i>Grass</i> is painted in a black ink that flows with lavish details of the beautiful fields and farmland of Korea and uses heavy brushwork on the somber interiors of Lee's memories. </p><p>The cartoonist Gendry-Kim's interviews with Lee become an integral part of <i>Grass</i>, forming the heart and architecture of this powerful nonfiction graphic novel and offering a holistic view of how Lee's wartime suffering changed her. <i>Grass</i> is a landmark graphic novel that makes personal the desperate cost of war and the importance of peace.</p>