{"id":46851,"date":"2020-05-25T11:12:29","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T15:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=46851"},"modified":"2020-05-16T21:23:27","modified_gmt":"2020-05-17T01:23:27","slug":"ummas-table-by-yeon-sik-hong-translated-by-janet-hong-in-booklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/ummas-table-by-yeon-sik-hong-translated-by-janet-hong-in-booklist\/","title":{"rendered":"Umma\u2019s Table by Yeon-sik Hong, translated by Janet Hong  [in Booklist]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-46859\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/05\/Ummas-Table-Yeon-Sik-Hong-BookDragon-598x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"598\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/05\/Ummas-Table-Yeon-Sik-Hong-BookDragon-598x800.jpg 598w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/05\/Ummas-Table-Yeon-Sik-Hong-BookDragon.jpg 632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px\" \/><strong>*STARRED REVIEW<\/strong><br \/>\nFor artist Madang Bae, life is divided into two opposing spheres, \u201cThe world I\u2019ve worked so hard to leave behind &#8230; and the world I\u2019ve worked so hard to build.\u201d The former is dominated by his abusive, alcoholic father and his beloved, long-suffering mother. The latter is the haven he\u2019s created with his wife and baby son, recently relocated to a bucolic village where a garden, chickens, and kind neighbors nourish the family.<\/p>\n<p>But Madang\u2019s aging parents are trapped in a stifling basement apartment in Seoul, his mother\u2019s health rapidly failing. Caring for this frail version of his mother brings back youthful memories of her unconditional devotion: to feed was to love, with \u201cUmma\u2019s Table\u201d always feast-ready despite difficult circumstances. As he struggles to provide comfort during her inevitable demise, Madang must also confront his own complicity in her decades of isolated neglect.<\/p>\n<p>As if to allow some semblance of distance from the raw vulnerability, Yeon-sik Hong (<em>Uncomfortably Happily<\/em>, 2017) presents his characters as anthropomorphized felines in his sophomore anglicized title; kudos to award-winning Janet Hong, who also translated the Korean graphic classics-in-the-making,\u00a0<em>Bad Friends<\/em>\u00a0(2018) and\u00a0<em>Grass<\/em> (2019). Wrenchingly relevant, Hong presents a piercing examination of the sandwich-generation impossibly caught between multi-generational responsibilities, navigating labyrinthine sociomedical systems, and enduring the torment of never being able to do enough.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/Umma-s-Table-Yeonsik-Hong\/pid=9734165\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">&#8220;Graphic Novels,&#8221; <em>Booklist<\/em>, May 15, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*STARRED REVIEW For artist Madang Bae, life is divided into two opposing spheres, \u201cThe world I\u2019ve worked so hard to leave behind &#8230; and the world I\u2019ve worked so hard to build.\u201d The former is dominated by his abusive, alcoholic father and his beloved, long-suffering&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,73,37,6535,66],"tags":[6608,6668,208,10,189,135,7238,13,39,44,9074,9073],"class_list":["post-46851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-fiction","category-graphic-novel-manga-manwha","category-korean","category-repost","category-translation","tag-bookdragon","tag-booklist","tag-drugs-alcohol-addiction","tag-family","tag-father-son-relationship","tag-grandparents","tag-janet-hong","tag-love","tag-parent-child-relationship","tag-siblings","tag-ummas-table","tag-yeon-sik-hong"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Umma\u2019s Table by Yeon-sik Hong, translated by Janet Hong [in Booklist] - BookDragon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/ummas-table-by-yeon-sik-hong-translated-by-janet-hong-in-booklist\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Umma\u2019s Table by Yeon-sik Hong, translated by Janet Hong [in Booklist] - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"*STARRED REVIEW For artist Madang Bae, life is divided into two opposing spheres, \u201cThe world I\u2019ve worked so hard to leave behind &#8230; 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