{"product_id":"grass","title":"Grass","description":"Appeared on best of the year lists from The New York Times, The Guardian, and more! Winner of The Cartoonist Studio Prize for Best Print Comic of the Year!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGrass 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeginning in Lee’s childhood, Grass 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. 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’s memories.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe cartoonist Gendry-Kim’s 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’s wartime suffering changed her. Grass is a landmark graphic novel that makes personal the desperate cost of war and the importance of peace.","brand":"Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47842489663714,"sku":"MTO-MACMILLAN-2026-05-29-13.48-505","price":49.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0569\/9898\/5881\/files\/book_20_aHrppESJnD.jpg?v=1780133995","url":"https:\/\/layitflat.com\/en-ca\/products\/grass","provider":"Lay it Flat Publishing Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}