Ginseng roots
Thompson, Craig, 1975-2025
Book
"From the celebrated author of Blankets and Habibi comes a long-awaited new graphic memoir form. 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. Following an injury, Craig rediscovers this herb, central to Chinese medicine, and embarks on an extraordinary journey from his midwestern roots to north-east China. Suffused in a vibrant, earthy palette, Ginseng Roots masterfully blends memoir, travelogue and cultural history to explore and illuminate ideas of creativity, doubt healing and family."-- Back cover.
Main title:
Ginseng roots / Craig Thompson.
Author:
Thompson, Craig, 1975-, author, artist
Work:
Imprint:
London : Faber & Faber Ltd, 2025.©2025
Collation:
447 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 24 cm
Notes:
"First published in the United States by Pantheon Books, a division of Penguin Random House LCC, New York""Originally published, in serialized form, by Uncivilized Books between 2019 and 2023."Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-443).
Contents:
Real ginseng runsSisters speciesBroad stripesRock(s) & Roll(ie)MaggaGood seed sinksNo more cartoonsFather AbrahamDark night of the soilInsam respectsRed threadAgricultural appreciation.
ISBN:
9780571386611 (hardback)
Dewey class:
741.5973
Language:
English
Subject:
Thompson, Craig, 1975- -- Comic books, strips, etcThompson, Craig, 1975- -- Childhood and youth -- Comic books, strips, etcThompson, Craig, 1975- -- Travel -- China -- Comic books, strips, etcCartoonists -- United States -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etcFarm life -- Wisconsin -- Comic books, strips, etcGinseng -- Comic books, strips, etcWorking class -- Comic books, strips, etcMedicine, Chinese -- Comic books, strips, etcAutobiographical comicsNonfiction comicsGraphic novels
BRN:
487862