Moms (original 2015; edição 2020)

It's "Real Housewives of Seoul!" All the infighting, infidelity, and invective, but with none of the glamour, glitz or gold.

The author asked his divorced fiftysomething mom to write up daily notes about her dating life and that of her similarly aged friends and co-workers, and then he adapted it into this graphic novel. So Soyeon works a dead-end cleaning job, let's her musician son live in her apartment rent-free so he can play video games all day, and dates a guy who cheats on her just like her ex-husband used to. Her big dream is to marry a rich guy who she can maybe cheat on.

The storyline meanders slice-of-life style a bit too long, but I slowly became vested in the sad sack main character even as I resented her for making so many wrong choices in her life. ( )