Bad friends
By: Ancco ; translated by Janet Hong
Contributors: Hong, Janet, translator
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 173
ISBN-13: 9781770463295
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Child abuse; Female juvenile delinquents; Cartoonists; Violence; Teenagers; Comic books, strips; Parent and child; Friendship
Description: "Jinju is bad. She smokes, drinks, runs away from home, and has no qualms about making her parents worry. Her mother and sister beg her to be a better student, sister, daughter; her beleaguered father expresses his concerns with his fists. Bad Friends is set in the 1990s in a South Korea torn between tradition and Western modernity and haunted by an air of generalized gloom. Cycles of abuse abound as the characters enact violence within their power structures: parents beat children, teachers beat students, older students beat younger students. But at each moment that the duress verges on bleakness, Ancco pulls back with soft moments of friendship between Jinju and her best friend, Jung-ae. What unfolds is a story of female friendship, a Ferrante-esque connection formed through youthful excess, malaise, and struggle that stays with the young women into adulthood."--Amazon.com.
Notes: "Originally published in Korean by Changbi Publishers, Inc."--Colophon.

In English, translated from the Korean.