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  <default_description>First love is never easy.

Ehwa grows up helping her widowed mother run the local tavern, watching as their customers &#8212; both neighbors and strangers &#8212; look down on her mother for her single lifestyle.&#160; Their social status isolates Ehwa and her mother from the rest of the people in their quiet country village.&#160; 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.

In the tradition of &lt;I&gt;My Antonia&lt;/I&gt; and &lt;I&gt;A Tree Grows in Brooklyn&lt;/I&gt;, from the pen of the renowned Korean manwha creator Kim Dong Hwa, comes a trilogy about a girl coming of age, set in the vibrant, beautiful landscape of pastoral Korea.</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[I imagine if Judy Bloom lived in rural Korea this would be the book she wrote. Really stunning. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Summary: This is the story of two women, one a little and the other her young widowed mother. The story focuses on the little girl and her awakening identity as a woman, and also as a side story is her mother who finds love again for the first time since her husband's death. As the back of my book s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79183698">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This artwork is stunning. I took my time with this work in part simply so I could linger over the images. Not only are the images breathtaking but the construction of the volume itself is pure craftsmanship. Heavy paper and rich colors and a glossed cover compliment this classic story about first lo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67172004">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The artwork is amazing! The detail just blows my mind away - the patterns on clothing, the blossoms and leaves on the trees, the gorgeous landscapes - let's just say that I would kill to have such talent and vision!<br/><br/>And who can resist a story about young love in all its innocent glory? Eh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51781342">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ok, let's just go there... This is the first book in a trilogy that explores female sexuality.  It's a graphic novel, or manwha, as they're called in Korea.  And, at times, yes, it is graphic.  But it's often understated, always sensitive, and nothing if not honest.  If this was not a graphic novel,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77616576">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I found myself marveling at some of the illustration in this book while being perplexed at a considerable amount of it.  I never could seem to come to terms with what Kim was doing with the combination of simple (and at times what seemed to me simplistic) drawings and the elaborate scenes of nature ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62188902">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[From Eva: The parallel stories of a young girl and her widowed mother as one grows into a woman and the other tries to live her life as fulfilled woman in a society defined by its social codes and traditions. <br/>Compared to A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and My Antonia, this is a remarkably quiet, beau...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61622856">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a typical mother-daughter coming of age memoir.  A girl lives with her mother, who is a single tavern keeper.  The mother has to put up with the chauvinism of her customers nightly, while cultivating a secret love affair with a traveling artist.  Ewha, her daughter, is deeply bothered by ho...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65977292">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a very charming story about the relationship between a young Korean girl and her single mother. It's also a story about Ehwa growing up and finding love, as well as her mother's love for a traveling painter. Overall, this was a very simple story about relationships, and as another reviewer p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69733077">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Judy Blume meets graphic novel. I don't read many graphic novels, but I read this one because it had been so well-reviewed. The art is lovely and open, and Kim Dong Hwa has made a lovely coming-of-age story here. I liked the writing, but maybe I'm more prudish than I thought - some of the scenes tha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67920816">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book explores the sexual awakening of a young Korean girl named Ehwa.  While she is learning about the various relationships between men and women, she has to deal with rampant sexism.  A description that I read of this book called it &quot;timeless,&quot; which I don't want to agree with becau...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67250079">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Posted with permission from the <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.sacramentbookreview.com">Sacramento Book Review</a><br/><br/>The first in a trilogy, the graphic novel The Color of Earth is now available to English-speaking (and reading) audiences.  While author and artist, Dong Hwa Kim, has published a number of graphic novels – or manwha as they are call...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58825305">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Color of Earth is the first in a trilogy also featuring The Color of Water and The Color of Heaven.  The Color of Earth focuses on Ehwa, a little girl who ages from about 7 to approximately 15 and experiences a sexual awakening at approximately the same time her widowed mother is experiencing a ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68235037">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I THINK this would be an ideal book for, like, pre-teen (or are they called &quot;tweens&quot; now?)girls, as it's all about a girl growing up in earlty 20th century rural Korea and coming to terms with her body,  her gender and her growing physical maturity.<br/><br/>But then, I don't know anythi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53055821">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Gorgeous manhwa about female sexuality. This first book in a 3 part series follows Ehwa's discovery and her widowed mother's re-discovery of their sexual feelings.<br/><br/>Kim Dong Hwa's drawings are unbelievably lovely. Paired with his honest, sweet depiction of bodily changes, The Color of Eart...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80116051">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is such a wonderful book!  I am usually not a fan of manga-style illustrating, but this book is drawn with a depth and skill that floored me.  The story is quite moving and should appeal to children, adults, men and women alike.  It is the story of a little girl and her mother both learning mor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77675433">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of my favorite graphic novels, a truly remarkable work of art.  The subtle exploration of growth and love is similar to the beautiful portrayal of Blankets, another beautiful graphic novel.  The tedious detail and black/white depiction of artwork is impressively striking.  This is a spee...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68894075">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the first in a trilogy from Kim Dong Hwa (Color of Earth and Color of Heaven are 2 &amp; 3).  Each chapter corresponds to a year in young Ehwa's adolescence in rural Korea.   Ehwa lives with her widowed mother who runs a modest, but successful tavern.  The story follows Ehwa and her explorations...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75514756">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The illustrations in this graphic novel were excellent.  There were times when I just sat looking at them.  The story is the first of a trilogy, so don't expect anything much to get wrapped up.  It's about a girl and her single mother in rural Korea and how the girl comes to terms with her sexuality...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74210598">more...</a>]]></body>
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