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‘It just blew me away.’ JEFF LEMIRE‘Beautiful.’ ROLLING STONE‘A masterpiece.’ JOE SACCOFROM THE BESTSELLING, AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF BLANKETS AND HABIBIFrom the celebrated author of Blankets and Habibi comes a long-awaited new graphic memoir. Ginseng Roots follows Craig and his siblings, who spent the summers of their youth weeding and harvesting rows of coveted American ginseng on rural Wisconsin farms. Following an injury, Craig rediscovers this herb, central to Chinese medicine, and embarks on an extraordinary journey from his midwestern roots to north-east China.Suffused in a vibrant earthy palette, Ginseng Roots masterfully blends memoir, travelogue and cultural history to explore and illuminate ideas of creativity, doubt, healing and family.

From the celebrated author of Blankets and Habibi comes a new graphic memoir exploring the class divide, childhood labor, family, and our globalized world--all centered on Wisconsin's ginseng farming industry When Blankets first published in 2003, Craig Thompson's seminal memoir about first love and faith lost in rural Wisconsin debuted to rapturous acclaim. The winner of two Eisner and three Harvey Awards, it is to this day considered one of the all-time great works of graphic storytelling. Now, in Craig's long-awaited return to the autobiographical form, comes the story that Blankets left out. Ginseng Roots follows Craig 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. In his trademark breathtaking pen-and-ink work, Craig interweaves this lost youth with the 300-year-old history of the global ginseng trade and the many lives it has tied together--from ginseng hunters in anci

2 EISNER AWARD NOMINATIONS / Best Graphic Memoir and BestWriter/Artist Craig ThompsonSet 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.