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The Color of Earth

The Color of Earth

Author(s): Kim Dong Hwa

Location(s): South Korea

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): Current

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First love is never easy. Ehwa grows up helping her widowed mother run the local tavern, watching as their customers – both neighbors and strangers – look down on her mother for her single lifestyle. Their social status isolates Ehwa and her mother from the rest of the people in their quiet country village. But as she gets older and sees her mother fall in love again, Ehwa slowly begins to open up to the possibility of love in her life.

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I still haven’t read much manhwa. Something tells me that this isn’t typical. It’s a slow, reflective coming of age story, surprisingly frank in how it shows a young girl’s sexual awakening. This certainly...

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