Ginseng Roots issue 7

Ginseng Roots issue 7 – The seventh issue of Craig Thompson’s Ginseng Roots follows the story of a family of Hmong immigrants that may have been the first to farm ginseng in America. The Hmong story is traced from CIA’s Secret War in Laos, through the ethnic cleansing campaign in their homeland, to America’s reluctant acceptance of Hmong as refugees. As they struggled with assimilation and discrimination in rural America, Hmong immigrants became the primary labor force in Wisconsin’s ginseng gardens. Also, the long-awaited harvest of the roots!

For the first time in his career, Thompson is working in serial form, in a bimonthly comic book series. 

Part memoir, part travelogue, part essay, Ginseng Roots explores class divide, agriculture, holistic healing, the 300 year long trade relationship between China and North America, childhood labor, and the bond between two brothers. An author of world-class with titles as Blankets, Habibi, Space Dumplins.

Highly recommended@De Stripkever!