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Okchundang Candy

Jung-soon Go, translated from Korean by Aerin Park

In this graphic novel, Jung-soon recalls summers spent with her grandparents: dressing up, watching cartoons, coloring one another’s fingernails with balsam petals, and joining neighbors to sweep the street. Her grandfather gives her grandmother okchundang candy during the ancestral ritual of Jesa. As Jung-soon and her grandparents grow older, the memories hold both the family’s everyday happiness and the pain of their final years together. Pencil and watercolor art accompanies the story.

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Book details

Themes
Family · Grandparents And Generations · Grief And Loss · Holidays And Celebrations
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Levine Querido
Published
March 4, 2025
Pages
128
ISBN-13
9781646145140
Language
English
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