Title: The Color of Earth
Author: Kim Dong Hwa
Genre: Young Adult
Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: First Second (March 31, 2009)
Description: First love is never easy.
Ehwa grows up helping her widowed mother run the local tavern, watching as their customers – both neighbors and strangers – look down on her mother for her single lifestyle. Their social status isolates Ehwa and her mother from the rest of the people in their quiet country village. But as she gets older and sees her mother fall in love again, Ehwa slowly begins to open up to the possibility of love in her life.
My Review: Korean manhwa (comics/graphic novels) are scarce. Everyone knows about Japanese manga, but no one seems to care about what South Korea has to offer. Korea has some gems folks, we just haven't found all of them yet, being that we are too distracted by Japan's offerings.
I was fiending for some eye entertainment, so I grabbed me the nearest graphic novel on the library shelf. I don't want to say this book is ALL about sm3x, but it kinda is... To put it eloquently, or something, this book follows the awakening of a young girls awareness of s3x, of love, and of her body. I do find it slightly awkward, but it is an awkward topic (just imagine your parents trying, or not, to have THE TALK. Kill me now). The humor and cultural wrappings make it entertaining and endearing, and we kind of forget the author/artist is a man...and that maybe we should be freaked.
Rating: 4/5
Perfect read for a taste of traditional Korean culture and maybe a sneaky (being that your kids may not get it and believe that boys really have chili peppers down there) sex ed. book.
Perfect read for a taste of traditional Korean culture and maybe a sneaky (being that your kids may not get it and believe that boys really have chili peppers down there) sex ed. book.
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