Ginseng roots : a memoir / Craig Thompson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thompson, Craig, 1975- author, artist.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Thompson, Craig, 1975---Comic books, strips, etc.

Thompson, Craig.

Cartoonists--United States--Biography--Comic books, strips, etc.

Cartoonists.

Farm life--Wisconsin--Comic books, strips, etc.

Farm life.

Ginseng--Comic books, strips, etc.

Ginseng.

Working class--Comic books, strips, etc.

Working class.

Medicine, Chinese--Comic books, strips, etc.

Medicine, Chinese.

Genre:

Autobiographical comics.

Nonfiction comics.

Graphic novels.

Physical Description:

447 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Pantheon, [2025]

Summary:

"From the celebrated author of Blankets and Habibi comes a long-awaited return to the graphic memoir form. Ginseng Roots follows Craig Thompson 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-and interweaves this lost youth with the three-hundred-year history of the global ginseng trade and the many lives it has tied together. 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Real ginseng runs

Sisters species

Broad stripes

Rock(s) & Roll(ie)

Magga

Good seed sinks

No more cartoons

Father Abraham

Dark night of the soil

Insam respects

Red thread

Agricultural appreciation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-443).

"Originally published in serialized form by Uncivilized Books between 2019 and 2023."

ISBN:

9780593700778

0593700775

OCLC:

1485645273