After briefly extricating herself from the group to nurse her infant daughter, she loses sight of her husband and three-year old son, never to see them again.īook Reviews Take A Magical Mystery Tour With This Chinese Comic Artist The Waiting, while inspired by the author's family account and two other historical records, is constructed as fiction in depicting the story of Gwija, a North Korean woman who becomes separated from her family while marching south during the war with a group of refugees. Prior to her mother's revelation, Gendry-Kim had had no awareness that this separation was part of her family history. Her mother and the rest of the family later returned south - but her aunt somehow remained in the North. Before the Korean War, her mother's family had taken a trip north from their home in Jeolla Province, South Korea, stopping in Pyongyang along the way. It was during those years abroad that Gendry-Kim learned her mother had a sister who might have been living in Pyongyang, North Korea.
The Waiting, her latest work since Grass - a 2019 critically-acclaimed graphic novel on the plight of a Korean woman forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese during WWII - continues Gendry-Kim's unflinching portrayal of the displacement caused by war, migration, and bias. South Korean comic artist Keum Suk Gendry-Kim really began to think about her identity while she was studying art in France in the early 2000s - fielding question after question from uninformed locals sharpened her sense of the divisions and the lack of resolution in Korea's history, and her own.
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