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Ginseng Roots: A Memoir (Hardcover)
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Ginseng Roots: A Memoir (Hardcover)
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When Blankets first published in 2003, Craig Thompson's seminal memoir
about first love and faith lost in rural Wisconsin debuted to rapturous
acclaim. The winner of two Eisner and three Harvey Awards, it is to
this day considered one of the all-time great works of graphic
storytelling. Now, in Craig's long-awaited return to the
autobiographical form, comes the story that Blankets left out.
Ginseng Roots follows Craig and his siblings, who spent the summers of
their youth weeding and harvesting rows of coveted American ginseng on
rural Wisconsin farms for one dollar an hour. In his trademark
breathtaking pen-and-ink work, Craig interweaves this lost youth with
the 300-year-old history of the global ginseng trade and the many lives
it has tied together—from ginseng hunters in ancient China, to
industrial farmers and migrant harvesters in the American Midwest, to
his own family still grappling with the aftershocks of the bitter past.
Stretching from Marathon, Wisconsin, to Northeast China, Ginseng Roots
charts the rise of industrial agriculture, the decline of American
labor, and the search for a sense of home in a rapidly changing world.
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