Ginseng roots a memoir

Thompson, Craig, 1975- author, illustrator.

Graphic Novel 2025

"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...

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