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A review by riotsquirrrl
Palimpsest: Documents from a Korean Adoption by Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom
3.0
This work really doesn't succeed as a work of sequential art. A lot of the work is made up of emails between the author and officials in Korea. The author also tends to draw people in a very stylized manner, with only the hair styles changing, which made it difficult to tell the difference between all of the characters.
I also get the impression that there's no amount of information that would actually satisfy the author. There is a hole in her that no other person can fill, and she seems unable to comprehend why her mother would want to leave the past behind.
I admit that I have somewhat of an idea of what the other side looks like. My aunt had given up a daughter for adoption and it had been a secret until a genetic test revealed the past. And my aunt still hasn't met her daughter in person, more than a year later. There are lots of complicated feelings and lots of shame involved. And so I find myself feeling like the author is being extremely intrusive especially when the author makes mention of how much fallout her mother would experience if it became known she had a child out of wedlock.
I also get the impression that there's no amount of information that would actually satisfy the author. There is a hole in her that no other person can fill, and she seems unable to comprehend why her mother would want to leave the past behind.
I admit that I have somewhat of an idea of what the other side looks like. My aunt had given up a daughter for adoption and it had been a secret until a genetic test revealed the past. And my aunt still hasn't met her daughter in person, more than a year later. There are lots of complicated feelings and lots of shame involved. And so I find myself feeling like the author is being extremely intrusive especially when the author makes mention of how much fallout her mother would experience if it became known she had a child out of wedlock.