Ginseng Roots: The Complete Box Set

2 EISNER AWARD NOMINATIONS / Best Graphic Memoir and BestWriter/Artist Craig Thompson
Set of twelve comic books. Includes Hello Chunky Rootmini-comic and a sticker.
From ages 10 to 20, Craig Thompson (author of Blankets,Goodbye Chunky Rice, Habibi, Carnet De Voyage, Space Dumplins) and his littlebrother Phil toiled in Wisconsin farms weeding and harvesting ginseng. Themedicinal herb fetched considerable profits in China and funded Craig’s youthfulobsession with comic books. Comics, in turn, allowed him to escape his rural,working-class trappings.
For the first time in his career, Thompson is serializinghis story. Part memoir, part travelogue, part essay— all comic book—GinsengRoots is a sweeping narrative that unearths surprising connections betweenclass divide, agriculture, holistic healing, the 300-year-long traderelationship between China and North America, childhood labor, and the bondbetween two brothers.