Moms

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Lee Soyeon, Myeong-ok, and Yeonjeong are mothers in their mid-fifties, and they've had it. Dead-weight husbands. Menial jobs where bosses control how much water they can drink. Lives narrowed to service and silence. When they begin to break free — through divorce, through fury, through the rediscovery of desire — the results are outrageously funny, deeply satisfying, and unexpectedly radical. Ma Yeong-shin's graphic novel reexamines romance, lust, and gender norms through characters that fiction usually treats as invisible: middle-aged women whose stories are supposed to be over. The artwork is bold and expressive, matching the energy of women who are done performing gratitude for lives that have given them nothing in return. A graphic novel about women who refuse to disappear quietly — proof that the most dangerous thing in the world is a mother who has finally stopped being polite.