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    "description": "This true story of a Korean comfort woman documents how the atrocity of war devastates women\u2019s lives.\n\nGrass 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\u2014a disputed chapter in twentieth-century Asian history.\n\nBeginning in Lee\u2019s childhood, Grass shows the lead-up to the war from a child\u2019s 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\u2019s strength in overcoming the many forms of adversity she experienced. Grass 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\u2019s memories.\n\nThe cartoonist Gendry-Kim\u2019s interviews with Lee become an integral part of Grass, forming the heart and architecture of this powerful nonfiction graphic novel and offering a holistic view of how Lee\u2019s wartime suffering changed her. Grass is a landmark graphic novel that makes personal the desperate cost of war and the importance of peace.",
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