Dog Days
Translated by Janet Hong
About
Yuna never wanted a dog. But her partner is grieving, and she gives in to his request — and in the grand tradition of reluctant pet owners, she and the puppy become inseparable. The couple even relocates to the countryside to soothe the dog's anxiety. Then, slowly, the pastoral idyll begins to fracture, and what seemed like a simple story about a pet becomes something far more complicated. Keum Suk Gendry-Kim, the graphic novelist behind Grass and The Naked Tree, turns her empathetic gaze on the intimate mechanics of a relationship under pressure. Her spare, expressive linework captures the small gestures — a hand on a leash, a silence at the dinner table — that reveal what words won't say. A graphic novel about the creatures we adopt to hold our lives together — and what happens when the lives themselves come apart.
