{"id":46155,"date":"2019-12-06T11:12:20","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=46155"},"modified":"2020-03-09T10:18:40","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T14:18:40","slug":"banned-book-club-by-hyun-sook-kim-with-ryan-estrada-illustrated-by-hyung-ju-ko-in-booklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/banned-book-club-by-hyun-sook-kim-with-ryan-estrada-illustrated-by-hyung-ju-ko-in-booklist\/","title":{"rendered":"Banned Book Club by Hyun Sook Kim with Ryan Estrada, illustrated by Hyung-Ju Ko [in Booklist]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-46168\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/11\/Banned-Book-Club-Hyun-Sook-Kim-BookDragon-547x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"547\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/11\/Banned-Book-Club-Hyun-Sook-Kim-BookDragon-547x800.jpg 547w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/11\/Banned-Book-Club-Hyun-Sook-Kim-BookDragon.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 547px) 100vw, 547px\" \/><strong>*STARRED REVIEW<\/strong><br \/>\nBusan-based wife-and-husband team Hyun Sook Kim and Ryan Estrada mine Kim\u2019s young adult experiences to expose a chilling period of recent Korean history so antithetical to the globally addictive entertainment of K-dramas and K-pop currently synonymous with South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>In 1983, Hyun Sook is a college freshman, determined to get the education her mother resents but her father, thankfully, supports. Her campus arrival is met with a student riot in progress calling for the dismissal of President Chun Doo-hwan over his totalitarian dictatorship. Hyun Sook manages to slip past police blockades and arrive at class, further determined to keep her head down, study, and \u201cstay out of politics!\u201d As an English literature major, she\u2019s thrilled to be invited to a book club, but what she enters is anything but a cozy circle of tea-sipping groupies. Hyun Sook attempts to flee but not without hearing first that she has \u201csome waking up to do.\u201d Despite lingering reluctance, Hyun Sook\u2019s quest for truth and understanding is on even as she fights her justified fears.<\/p>\n<p>In recreating such difficult history, artist Hyung-Ju Ko finds a remarkable balance of humor and bleakness, of youthful tenacity and growing cynicism. From joyous mask dances to bored classrooms to tortuous jail cells, Ko captures Kim\u2019s activist-as-a-young-student journey with an affecting resonance sure to inspire today\u2019s youthful generation of tenacious changemakers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/Banned-Book-Club-Kim-Hyun-Sook\/pid=9725133\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">&#8220;Graphic Novels,&#8221; <em>Booklist<\/em>, November 15, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2020 (United States)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*STARRED REVIEW Busan-based wife-and-husband team Hyun Sook Kim and Ryan Estrada mine Kim\u2019s young adult experiences to expose a chilling period of recent Korean history so antithetical to the globally addictive entertainment of K-dramas and K-pop currently synonymous with South Korea. 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