Keum-Suk Kim

Seoul these days. Guja is 92 years old. During her retirement life, one day, she and a friend spoke about the government's program to allow Korean families separated by the war in 1950 to meet again. Then, at that moment, her past, her youth, her first marriage, her first two children. And most importantly, this exodus that will separate her from her husband and first son while she's alone with her infant. She'll never see them again. At the twilight of her life, she tells her daughter Jina, a cartoonist for youth, this broken life, these moments of despair, and her life after all of these tragic incidents.

Grass is a powerful anti-war graphic novel, offering up firsthand the life story of a Korean girl named Ok-Sun Lee who was forced into sexual slavery for the Japanese Imperial Army during the second World War — a disputed chapter in 20th century Asian history.