Two little but very important notes before I begin talking about Grass. The first is this book was given to me as a review copy by Drawn and Quarterly. The second is that Grass is about about the life of a Korean comfort woman during WWII so this book is unmistakably about sexual violence. There … Continue reading Keum Suk Gendry-Kim’s Grass: Swallowing Suffering For Every Meal
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