Banned Book Club
Kim Hyun Sook, Ryan Estrada
This fictionalized biographical graphic novel follows Kim Hyun Sook’s college years in South Korea during the Fifth Republic. In 1983, she persuades her traditional mother to let her attend college and expects to study Western literature instead of working at the family restaurant. Reading soon leads to stakes she had not anticipated. At university, she becomes involved with a secret student group that reads underground literature. The story was fictionalized to protect the people whose experiences it portrays.
This book appears on 2 reading lists across 1 edition from 2 organizations.
