This is an incredibly emotional story that dives into Korean history and the ongoing heartbreak of family separation. The artwork is stunning! I especially loved the full page drawings where people's faces are overlaid with images from the landscape or buildings. It's poetic - weaving person and place into one. 

I also really appreciated the author's note at the end explaining the inspiration for this book as well as the title. The title really encapsulates the raw emotion, hopelessness, and sorrow that permeate through the pages.

This is such an intense story, such a difficult book, and so tenderly drawn and told.
My favorite drawing is on page 15 when the narrator looks up at her mother's apartment building and the image of the building is within the frame/silhouette of her body...
Some of the art is messy, I don't know how to describe it exactly because it's something about the overall look of the page that ends up looking messy instead of "clean," whereas, for instance p.15 is so clean, lines crisp, worked over.
I like the way the mother is drawn: an imperfection that is also loving, truthful.  But I would prefer cleaner lines throughout (though I feel guilty for saying this because the book is good and the story so important).