![]() One site is the baths where the women and girls talk together, share knowledge, develop friendships, and gain some sense of solidarity. Some gender stereotypes are lightly challenged here about who really gets to make societal choices, but the story shows us, again and again, that it is women, working together, that get to make a lot of choices for themselves and to support each other. He's been photographing and writing cultural linguistics (which makes him close to Mori, an outsider interested in language and culture). Smith, the American anthropologist, now also betrothed to a woman in the region, seems just about ready to go home. In a brief afterword manga, Kaoru Mori tells us that in her drive for accuracy of detail and historical resonance that she hs now traveled to five countries in this region, which she really loves. Increasingly, the focus is on the diversity of cultures at that time and place. It's a meticulously drawn and historically researched story of the nineteenth-century Silk Road, with a focus on girls who are sometimes (and usually happily) betrothed at an early age (some boys are also betrothed in these arranged marriages, too). ![]() But I have been reading this series for many years and am perfectly comfortable with reading at its slower, adult pace. Often it is a little frustrating to read comics series a volume at a time over a number of years, especially if the work is action-based. ![]()
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