(Gendry-Kim’s aunt), who never made it out of North Korea. Many families were separated, as were Gendry-Kim’s mother and her mother’s sister Inspired by her mother’s personal experiences at the end of the Korean War, andĪ few men who do show up are not desirable characters-the neighbor who stealsĪ child’s dog and cooks it a slothful male who abandons his sister-in-law and In fact, very few men appear in this story Patriarchal society such as Korea is a common theme in Gendry-Kim’s books, as Since 2012, are Jiseul (2015), an account of the massacre of civiliansīy the South Korean army during the Korean War, and her latest title, The Japanese government, in her A Day with Grandfather (2017).Ĭontinues to bring attention to Korean national tragedies through the personalĮxperiences of those who endured them. Gendry-Kimįound an elderly Korean man still living in Japan who experienced one of theĪtomic bombings while working in Japan in the 1940s, willing to explain how heĪnd fellow Korean laborers were passed over and denied reparation funds by the Surviving Korean comfort woman and backed up by nine other victims. Sexually service Japanese soldiers during World War II, as told to her by one (2019), the story of the “comfort women,” enslaved East Asian girls used to

They are evident in her many awards-winning graphic novel, Grass She is truly what I call an “investigativeĬartoonist.” Gendry-Kim has used these reportorial skills over and over during Suk Gendry-Kim has a knack for digging up personal stories related to

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